The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa [Paperback]

This book argues that Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security despite its history of persistent food shortages and the rising threat of climate change. To achieve this, the continent must harness scientific and technological advances, invest in infrastructure, foster higher technical training, and create regional markets. It must also foster a new crop of entrepreneurial leaders dedicated to the continent's economic improvement.

This new edition provides ideas on how to place agriculture at the center of the continent's long-term economic transformation. It demonstrates how policy coordination can help realize agriculture's full potential as a motherboard for other economic activities. Incorporating lessons from academia, government, civil society, and private industry,The New Harvestoutlines how African countries can work together at regional levels to generate new knowledge and resources, harness technological advancement, encourage entrepreneurship, increase agricultural output, create markets, and improve overall economic performance.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms
Chapter 1: The Growing Economy
Chapter 2: Advances in Science, Technology, and Engineering
Chapter 3: Leapfrogging in Biotechnology
Chapter 4: Agricultural Innovation Systems
Chapter 5: Enabling Infrastructure
Chapter 6: Human Capacity
Chapter 7: Entrepreneurship
Chapter 8: Governing Innovation
Chapter 9: Conclusions and the Way Ahead
Notes
Index

This is a refreshing new book that steps back from the usual debates about appropriate agricultural policies and programme interventions for redressing Africa's pressing poverty and food security needs, to take a longer-term view of the kinds of science-based interventions that are needed to launch Africa's agricultural sector on a structurally different trajectory...Calestous Juma develops a compelling vision of hls#