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Title: | CIDA and agriculture in East and Central Africa |
Author: | Freeman, Linda |
Book title: | The politics of agriculture in tropical Africa |
Year: | 1984 |
Pages: | 99-123 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Sudan Kenya Tanzania Zambia Canada |
Subjects: | development cooperation agriculture |
Abstract: | Situates the C(anadian) I(international) D(evelopment) A(gency)'s food projects in East and Central Africa in the context of evolving strategies of Western donors toward Third World rual development in the 1970s and 1980s. The chapter also examines several concrete cases and, in particular, the choices made on technology, the nature of the crop produced, the scale of operations, and the form of ownership. Canada's assistance is not unlike that promoted by proponents of the Green Revolution. It is open to question whether CIDA's assistance will not be destructive in the long term too. As long as CIDA is able to manage its projects as if they were in Canada, they should at least be able to sustain these projects. As a contribution to the problem of food shortages in Africa, they are not only limited in terms of the benefits they offer to the majorities in each of the recipient countries, but also are highly vulnerable to change in a region that is economically depressed and politically volatile. Notes, ref. |