IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE LESSONS FOB THE F i n RE

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world. Because most Africans work in agricul-ture, increased agricultural productivity offers an unusually powerful lever for raising the incomes of the majority of poor households, lowering food prices, and stimulating growth in other eco-nomic sectors. Per capita agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa has fallen, however, for much of the past half-century. Successes in African Agriculture in-vestigates how to reverse this decline. Instead of cataloging failures, as many past studies have done, this book identifies episodes of successful agri-cultural growth in Africa and identifies processes, practices, and policies for accelerated growth in the future. The individual studies follow developments in, among other areas, the farming of maize in East and Southern Africa, cas-sava across the middle belt of Africa, and cotton in West Africa; horticulture in Kenya; and dairying in East Africa. Drawing on these case studies and on consultations with agricultural specialists and politicians from across Sub-Saharan Africa—undertaken in collaboration with the African Union'