Publisher's Synopsis
There are currently profound problems within the agricultural sector of many African states. Overall food supply has failed to increase in proportion to the population and chronic malnutrition is common in large parts of the continent.;"Incentives and Agriculture in East Africa" discusses what can be done to stimulate agricultural production. It analyzes the "African socialism" of Julius Nyerere and contrasts this with market-led approaches. Nyerere believed that the values of co-operation and mutual aid that characterized a traditional extended family could become the basis for communal agriculture with rewards shared along egalitarian lines. However, attempts to replace the profit motive with the co-operative spirit have not been successful. Agriculture in East Africa has plunged into crisis and large numbers of the rural population have migrated from the land to the city.
