Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
The time is ripe to pursue a Green Revolution in rice in sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA) as a means of promoting food security and poverty reduction. This is partly
because rice is an up-and-coming crop in this region, and partly because, as will be
demonstrated in this volume, we have now accumulated deep knowledge about rice
cultivation in SSA. With the aim of generating relevant policy recommendations,
this book attempts to show what needs to be done to realize a rice Green Revolution
in SSA. It is based on more than ten years of empirical inquiries into rice production
by our research team in selected countries, namely Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda,
Kenya, Ghana, and Senegal, along with the newly added case of Cote d’Ivoire. This
chapter explains why rice is important, provides a conceptual framework for realizing
a rice Green Revolution, and proposes several major hypotheses to be tested in this
book.
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