African countries should subsidize agricultural developments and research Mustapha and Culas 12 Umar M Mustapha and Richard J Culas, profs @ Charles Sturt University, Australia, "Trade and Agricultural Policy Reform for Food Security in Tomorrow's Africa and Asia" in Food Security, Ed. Jones & Hernandez, 2012 [PDI] Another challenge that hinders the policy implementation in Africa is the limited high potential agricultural land and overreliance on rain-fed agriculture (Sulieman, 2010). With serious fluctuations and change in weather patterns caused by global warming, this has posed a major Irrigation could be a solution challenge for African countries. which to this problem has not been exploited to the maximum there has been limited exploitation of the regional market (You et al, 2011). For agricultural trade in Africa, potential. This is a failure that can be attributed to the governments of African countries. If this were to be taken up by the respective governments then trade in agricultural products would experience increased income (Anderson and Nelgen, 2010). There has been lack of research in the agricultural field in most African countries. This as a result has led to slow growth. If the African countries could invest in research, then this could be a sure way out of underproduction. Research comes with it new technology, which is the key to agricultural problems in the continent at large The government (Buah et al, 2011). needs to take the initiative which may come in the form of subsidizing tax on technological oriented agriculture, sponsoring agricultural research activities, inviting or employing expertise from agriculturally successful countries to drive the agricultural agenda.
African countries should subsidize agricultural developments and research Mustapha and Culas 12 Umar M Mustapha and Richard J Culas, profs @ Charles Sturt University, Australia, "Trade and Agricultural Policy Reform for Food Security in Tomorrow's Africa and Asia" in Food Security, Ed. Jones & Hernandez, 2012 [PDI] Another challenge that hinders the policy implementation in Africa is the limited high potential agricultural land and overreliance on rain-fed agriculture (Sulieman, 2010). With serious fluctuations and change in weather patterns caused by global warming, this has posed a major challenge for African countries. Irrigation which could be a solution to this problem has not been exploited to the maximum (You et al, 2011). For agricultural trade in Africa, there has been limited exploitation of the regional market potential. This is a failure that can be attributed to the governments of African countries. If this were to be taken up by the respective governments then trade in agricultural products would experience increased income (Anderson and Nelgen, 2010). There has been lack of research in the agricultural field in most African countries. This as a result has led to slow growth. If the African countries could invest in research, then this could be a sure way out of underproduction. Research comes with it new technology, which is the key to agricultural problems in the continent at large (Buah et al, 2011). The government needs to take the initiative which may come in the form of subsidizing tax on technological oriented agriculture, sponsoring agricultural research activities, inviting or employing expertise from agriculturally successful countries to drive the agricultural agenda.
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