Food Production and Rural Development in the Sahel
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Africa's Food Crisis
Agriculture Service
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cash crop production
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Colonial Administration
development program evaluation
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FAO Project
FL Center
FL Class
Functional Literacy
Functional Literacy Program
irrigation policy analysis
Ivory Coast
Keita Regime
Large Families
literacy programs
Office Du Niger
Operation Riz-Segou
parastatal agriculture
participatory agricultural policy reform
Pilot Farmers
Polder Land
Rice Production Practices
rural poverty
rural poverty alleviation
Sahel's food crisis
Sahelian governance
Sahelian Governments
Segou Region
smallholder livelihoods
Smallholder Participation
Stade II
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367020019
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Mali and throughout the Sahel, governments increasingly rely on parastatal organizations to overcome the problems of lagging food production and rural poverty. This book examines the political and economic consequences of the efforts of one organization, Operation Riz-Segou in Mali, to increase smallholder food and cash crop production. Drawing extensively on fieldwork in Mali, the author finds that significant investments in irrigation facilities, financed by foreign aid, have not reduced the smallholder's vulnerability to the risks posed by weather and uncertain flood levels of the Niger River. The extension system discourages smallholder investment for long-term agricultural development because of its preoccupation with supervision and administrative control. Moreover, the Operation engages in many popular rural development activities—literacy programs, farmer training, women's artisanal centers—that give the facade of grassroots participation but in reality do not provide villagers a critically needed voice in local program administration. Comparing Operation Riz-Segou to similar parastatal agricultural development programs in the Sahel, Dr. Bingen discusses why only those policies deliberately designed and carefully implemented to share power with the majority of the people can lay the political and economic foundation required to overcome rural poverty and resolve the food crisis in the Sahel.
