Revitalising African agriculture through innovative business models and organisational arrangements
Promising Developments in the Traditional Crops Sector
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4823944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cosmas Milton Obote Ochieng (0000-0002-3061-5482, Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 143-169 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x0600231x |
| OpenAlex | W2142678279 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Within the last four years, a number of high profile reports outlining new strategies for pulling African agriculture out of its current impasse have emerged. These include the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme of NEPAD, and the InterAcademy Council Report commissioned by UN Secretary General Koffi Annan. Whilst these strategies are a welcome improvement on those that have characterised African agriculture in the past, it is argued here that like their predecessors, they fail to focus on business-competitive approaches as an integral part of the reform package needed to stimulate African agricultural productivity and development. This paper draws on innovation, business and organisation literature to highlight some of these approaches. It focuses on three concepts: value innovation, lead user focus and organisational value logic
Agriculture · Business · Business model · Economic growth · Economics · Focus (optics) · Geography · Management · Political science · Productivity · Regional science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Business Strategies and Innovation · Computer Science · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
Silent violence
Transforming traditional agriculture
The Informal Economy
Lead Users
Commodities and capabilities
Cooperation between Rivals
Whose Voice
Development as Freedom
Poverty and Famines
World agriculture
Informal sector or petty commodity production
Successes in African Agriculture
What should we expect from farmer field schools? A Sri Lanka case study
Success Stories from African Agriculture
Introduction
The Learning Region
The space of vulnerability
Struggles over Geography
Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |