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© 1988 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank

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TECHNOLOGICAL PRIORITIES FOR FARMING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Hans Binswanger and Prabhu Pingali

The article examines the suitability of different agricultural research strategies in African countries with varying endowments of land, labour, and climate. Differences in such endowments lead to a wide spectrum of farming systems. Agricultural technologies that are cost-effective in some farming systems are not in others. Many past failures are due to a mismatch between technological strategies and farming systems. The article classifies countries of Sub-Saharan Africa on the basis of agroclimatic density and suggests appropriate technological strategies for each class of countries.


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