| dc.contributor.advisor |
Wilson, Robert Hines |
| dc.creator |
Kosoris, Justin Michael
|
| dc.date.accessioned |
2010-11-22T22:01:29Z |
| dc.date.accessioned |
2010-11-22T22:01:35Z |
| dc.date.available |
2010-11-22T22:01:29Z |
| dc.date.available |
2010-11-22T22:01:35Z |
| dc.date.created |
2010-05 |
| dc.date.issued |
2010-11-22 |
| dc.date.submitted |
May 2010 |
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1237 |
| dc.description.abstract |
This report will outline a new framework for improved yields and increased sustainability in Sub-Saharan African smallholder agriculture. Given the failures of agricultural development aid and policy in the past, cross-sector collaboration among local farmer networks, national governments, and private corporations could represent a new model to foster sustainable agricultural production and growth, as each has had past successes but have not traditionally come together to work as a collaborative unit. This paper will examine each sector to look at best practices and then develop a framework for such collaboration. After a normative case with a positive outlook as to the potential for implementing the framework to Senegal‘s groundnut sector, the paper concludes that the framework can work in a variety of settings as long as one is aware of and respects local conditions. |
| dc.format.mimetype |
application/pdf |
| dc.language.iso |
eng |
| dc.subject |
Sustainable agriculture
|
| dc.subject |
Green Revolution
|
| dc.subject |
Sustainability
|
| dc.subject |
Corporate social responsibility
|
| dc.subject |
CSR
|
| dc.subject |
Fair trade
|
| dc.subject |
Participatory rural appraisal
|
| dc.subject |
PRA
|
| dc.subject |
Innovation
|
| dc.subject |
Smallholder farmer
|
| dc.title |
A new framework for African smallholder agriculture : harnessing innovation and the private sector to drive sustainable development |
| dc.date.updated |
2010-11-22T22:01:35Z |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Wilson, Patricia A. |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Evans, Angela M. |
| dc.description.department |
Public Affairs
|
| dc.type.genre |
thesis |
| dc.type.material |
text |
| thesis.degree.department |
Public Affairs
|
| thesis.degree.discipline |
Public Affairs |
| thesis.degree.grantor |
University of Texas at Austin |
| thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
| thesis.degree.name |
Master of Public Affairs |
