Mechanization and Maize: Agriculture and the Politics of Technology Transfer in East Africaby Constance G. Anthony

✍ Scribed by Review by: Jennifer Seymour Whitaker

• Book ID: 125209435
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 187 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20043663

✦ Synopsis

Against

a background history of international agricultural research in stitutions over the past several decades, the author discusses the complexities of political, ecological, institutional and technical problems in developing new farm technologies for Africa in relation to two major cases, Kenya and Tanzania. In Africa, she concludes, egalitarianism works less well than elitism for diffusing agricultural technologies, and poor governments can ill afford the development and distribution of new seeds and techniques on a large scale.