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| Preface | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| African Agriculture in the Face of Multiple Challenges | |
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| The Demographic Challenges | |
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| The Overall Demographic Picture | |
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| The Rural Population and Its Challenges | |
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| Conclusion: What Level of Population for What Level of Development? | |
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| Annex: Necessary Population Policies | |
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| Annex Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Need for Inclusive Agricultural Growth at the Heart of Africa's Economic Transition | |
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| Agriculture and Economic Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Need for Inclusive Government Policies | |
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| Notes | |
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| Ecosystems: Reconciling Conservation, Production, and Sustainable Management | |
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| Natural Resource Governance: A History of Trials | |
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| African Landscapes | |
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| Natural Capital: Constraints and Opportunities | |
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| Three Cross-Cutting Issues to Be Considered | |
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| Adapting Public Policies to the Ecological and Human Situations of Territories | |
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| Notes | |
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| Entangled Issues in Need of Clarification | |
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| The Various Types of Issues at Stake | |
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| Issues to Be Analyzed on Different Scales | |
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| Major Problems to Be Set in Perspective and Quantified | |
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| Agricultural Challenges to Be Met | |
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| Steering Transitions of Rural Economies | |
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| Agricultural Transitions and the Weight of Government Policies | |
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| Overview of Principal Transitions in African Agriculture | |
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| Priority Fields of Intervention and Collaborative Development of Government Policies | |
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| The Need for a Change in Policy Governance | |
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| Notes | |
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| Land Policy: A Linchpin of Economic Development and Social Peace | |
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| An Increasingly Worrisome Land Situation | |
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| The Major Challenges of Land Policy Reform | |
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| Land and Sectoral Policies for Strengthening Family Farms | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Innovation Systems and Support Mechanisms | |
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| Great Diversity, Shared Challenges, a Changing Context | |
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| African Agriculture Caught in Transition between Endogenous Dynamics and Exogenous Support | |
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| What Does Innovation in Agriculture Really Mean? | |
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| Factors of Change and Modes of Innovation | |
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| The Impact of Large Public or Private Development Operators and Large or Midsize Distribution Operators | |
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| Evolution of Support Mechanisms for Innovation Processes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Note | |
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| Toward a Regional Food Market Priority | |
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| Despite the Adoption of Liberally Inspired Models, the Share of African Agricultural Trade Remains Small | |
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| New Data Shake Up Conventional Thinking about Agriculture | |
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| A Priority, the Regional Food Market | |
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| Requisite Conditions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Financing Agricultural and Rural Transitions | |
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| Historical Background of Agricultural Financing and Its Limits in West Africa | |
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| How Can the Financing of Agriculture and the Rural Economy Be Improved? | |
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| What Conditions Should Be Implemented to Support the Financing of Agriculture? | |
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| Building Human Capital and Promoting Farmers and Their Organizations | |
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| Too Little Attention Is Paid to the Human Dimensions of Agricultural Development | |
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| Capacity Building for Farmers | |
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| Strengthening Collective Dynamics | |
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| Construction of Balanced, Dynamic Relations among Actors | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Cross-Cutting Views | |
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| Views of a Senegalese Agricultural Leader | |
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| Positions on Urban-Rural Relationships | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Kenyan Agricultural Leader's Standpoint | |
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| Views of a Burkinab� Small Farmer Leader | |
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| Rethinking Agricultural Policy | |
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| Policy Blindness in the Face of the Evidence | |
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| Differentiation of Farms and Public Policies | |
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| Investing in Human Capital | |
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| Constructing a Frank and Serious Dialogue on Policy | |
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| Articulating National and Regional Public Policies | |
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| Articulating Regional Policies in International Negotiations | |
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| Note | |
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| In Conclusion, a Question: Can Tropical Africa Be a Future Agricultural Giant? | |
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| Index | |
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| Boxes | |
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| Differences between Countries Based on Relative Numbers of Agricultural Workers | |
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| What Does the Future Hold for the Pastoral Economy? | |
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| Problems Associated with Protected Areas | |
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| Forest Extraction in Central Africa | |
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| The Doubly Green Revolution and Undersowing: Standing at a Crossroads | |
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| Typology of the Agricultural Systems and the Place of Agribusinesses in the Senegal River Delta | |
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| Communal Management of Land Rights (Benin, Madagascar) | |
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| Registration Policies: The Sole Solution? | |
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| Example | |
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