By Goran Djurfeldt, Hans Holmen, Magnus Jirstroml, Rolf Larsson
Why can Asia now feed its speedily starting to be inhabitants, yet Africa maintains to event famine? This e-book is the end result of a three-year undertaking coordinated via a gaggle of Swedish researchers with participating students from Africa and Asia. It offers a comparative learn among Asian agricultural improvement through the eco-friendly Revolution in nutrients construction and the present not easy agricultural state of affairs in sub-Saharan Africa. in accordance with case stories of 8 African and 8 Asian international locations (focusing at the early a part of the golf green Revolution), this publication provides a causal and explanatory version of Asian eco-friendly revolutions. It discusses why such growth has been made in Asia, yet has now not but happened in Africa. It additionally examines the results of the case reviews for destiny improvement in Africa.
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Today few people would think of Asia in terms of a food crisis. The Green Revolution in tropical Asia was, however, not unique. Although less spectacular, dramatic increases in production had occurred in East Asia prior to the development in South-east and South Asia. Starting in Japan in the second half of the 19th century and continuing in its former colonies Taiwan and Korea in the 1920s and 1930s, processes sharing several features with those of the Green Revolution in the tropics contributed to the transformation of these societies and their economies.
We think there is a lesson in this, and we will try to spell it out more explicitly in the concluding chapter. With reference to Africa, our standpoint is similar. It is easy to spell out the implications of a liberal or leftist programme for African agriculture, or for that matter a green one, but it is not the most interesting task! It is more interesting to find out what is really happening on the ground and to confront this – not first-hand with a normative and programmatic model, but with an empirical one.
In 1949, General Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist army retreated from the mainland to Taiwan. An influx of nearly 2 million soldiers and civilians to an island of 6 million people contributed to the acute food scarcity of the period, but also in the medium term the food situation posed a challenge (Moore, 34 M. Jirström 1985). Three factors made it necessary to achieve a continued growth of rice production during the 1950s. The first was the high population growth rate, above 3% per year until 1964.