The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper investigates the potential of and constraints to a rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa's large-scale irrigation schemes, using data from Uganda, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. The authors find that adequ...
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okr-10986-33292021-04-23T14:02:08Z The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa Nakano, Yuko Bamba, Ibrahim Diagne, Aliou Otsuka, Keijiro Kajisa, Kei ACCESS TO IRRIGATION ACCESS TO WATER AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL WATER AGRONOMY ANNUAL RAINFALL AVERAGE YIELDS CANALS CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CONSTRUCTION CREDIT ACCESS CREDIT PROGRAM CROP CROP MANAGEMENT CROP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES CULTIVATED AREA CULTIVATED RICE CULTIVATION PRACTICES DAILY WAGE DAM DEVELOPING REGIONS DRY LAND EXTENSION AGENCY FAO FARM FARM MANAGEMENT FARM SIZE FARMER FARMER ORGANIZATIONS FARMERS FARMING FARMING PRACTICES FERTILIZER FERTILIZER SUBSIDY FERTILIZER USE FOOD POLICY FOOD SECURITY GERMPLASM GRAIN GRAIN QUALITY GRAVITY GRAVITY IRRIGATION GREEN REVOLUTION HARVESTING HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD SIZE HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION INLAND VALLEY BOTTOMS INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRRI IRRIGATION IRRIGATION AREA IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT IRRIGATION INVESTMENTS IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT IRRIGATION PROJECTS IRRIGATION SCHEME IRRIGATION SCHEMES IRRIGATION SYSTEM IRRIGATION WATER LABOR DEMAND LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LOCAL FARMERS MICRO-FINANCE MICRO-FINANCE INSTITUTIONS PADDY PADDY YIELDS PESTICIDE POVERTY REDUCTION PRODUCTION COST PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY PUMPING RAINFALL RAINFED AREAS RICE RICE CULTIVATION RICE PRICE RICE PRICES RICE PRODUCTION RICE RESEARCH RICE VARIETIES RIVER VALLEY RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLING SEED SEEDING SMALL FARMERS SMALL-SCALE IRRIGATION SOIL FERTILITY TRANSPLANTING TROPICAL AGRICULTURE WATER DELIVERY WATER DELIVERY SYSTEMS WATER DISTRIBUTION WATER HARVESTING WATER SHORTAGE WATER SUPPLY WETLANDS YIELDS This paper investigates the potential of and constraints to a rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa's large-scale irrigation schemes, using data from Uganda, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. The authors find that adequate irrigation, chemical fertilizer, and labor inputs are the key to high productivity. Chemical fertilizer is expensive in Uganda and Mozambique and is barely used. This is aggravated when water access is limited because of the complementarities between fertilizer and irrigation. Meanwhile, in the schemes located in four countries in West Africa's Sahel region, where water access is generally good and institutional support for chemical fertilizer exists, rice farmers achieve attractive yields. Some countries' wage rate is high and thus mechanization could be one solution for this constraint. Improvement of credit access also facilitates the purchase of expensive fertilizer or the employment of hired labor. 2012-03-19T18:00:26Z 2012-03-19T18:00:26Z 2011-02-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110207101601 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3329 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5560 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Africa |
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ACCESS TO IRRIGATION ACCESS TO WATER AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL WATER AGRONOMY ANNUAL RAINFALL AVERAGE YIELDS CANALS CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CONSTRUCTION CREDIT ACCESS CREDIT PROGRAM CROP CROP MANAGEMENT CROP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES CULTIVATED AREA CULTIVATED RICE CULTIVATION PRACTICES DAILY WAGE DAM DEVELOPING REGIONS DRY LAND EXTENSION AGENCY FAO FARM FARM MANAGEMENT FARM SIZE FARMER FARMER ORGANIZATIONS FARMERS FARMING FARMING PRACTICES FERTILIZER FERTILIZER SUBSIDY FERTILIZER USE FOOD POLICY FOOD SECURITY GERMPLASM GRAIN GRAIN QUALITY GRAVITY GRAVITY IRRIGATION GREEN REVOLUTION HARVESTING HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD SIZE HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION INLAND VALLEY BOTTOMS INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRRI IRRIGATION IRRIGATION AREA IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT IRRIGATION INVESTMENTS IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT IRRIGATION PROJECTS IRRIGATION SCHEME IRRIGATION SCHEMES IRRIGATION SYSTEM IRRIGATION WATER LABOR DEMAND LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LOCAL FARMERS MICRO-FINANCE MICRO-FINANCE INSTITUTIONS PADDY PADDY YIELDS PESTICIDE POVERTY REDUCTION PRODUCTION COST PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY PUMPING RAINFALL RAINFED AREAS RICE RICE CULTIVATION RICE PRICE RICE PRICES RICE PRODUCTION RICE RESEARCH RICE VARIETIES RIVER VALLEY RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLING SEED SEEDING SMALL FARMERS SMALL-SCALE IRRIGATION SOIL FERTILITY TRANSPLANTING TROPICAL AGRICULTURE WATER DELIVERY WATER DELIVERY SYSTEMS WATER DISTRIBUTION WATER HARVESTING WATER SHORTAGE WATER SUPPLY WETLANDS YIELDS |
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ACCESS TO IRRIGATION ACCESS TO WATER AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL WATER AGRONOMY ANNUAL RAINFALL AVERAGE YIELDS CANALS CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CONSTRUCTION CREDIT ACCESS CREDIT PROGRAM CROP CROP MANAGEMENT CROP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES CULTIVATED AREA CULTIVATED RICE CULTIVATION PRACTICES DAILY WAGE DAM DEVELOPING REGIONS DRY LAND EXTENSION AGENCY FAO FARM FARM MANAGEMENT FARM SIZE FARMER FARMER ORGANIZATIONS FARMERS FARMING FARMING PRACTICES FERTILIZER FERTILIZER SUBSIDY FERTILIZER USE FOOD POLICY FOOD SECURITY GERMPLASM GRAIN GRAIN QUALITY GRAVITY GRAVITY IRRIGATION GREEN REVOLUTION HARVESTING HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD SIZE HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION INLAND VALLEY BOTTOMS INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRRI IRRIGATION IRRIGATION AREA IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT IRRIGATION INVESTMENTS IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT IRRIGATION PROJECTS IRRIGATION SCHEME IRRIGATION SCHEMES IRRIGATION SYSTEM IRRIGATION WATER LABOR DEMAND LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LOCAL FARMERS MICRO-FINANCE MICRO-FINANCE INSTITUTIONS PADDY PADDY YIELDS PESTICIDE POVERTY REDUCTION PRODUCTION COST PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY PUMPING RAINFALL RAINFED AREAS RICE RICE CULTIVATION RICE PRICE RICE PRICES RICE PRODUCTION RICE RESEARCH RICE VARIETIES RIVER VALLEY RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLING SEED SEEDING SMALL FARMERS SMALL-SCALE IRRIGATION SOIL FERTILITY TRANSPLANTING TROPICAL AGRICULTURE WATER DELIVERY WATER DELIVERY SYSTEMS WATER DISTRIBUTION WATER HARVESTING WATER SHORTAGE WATER SUPPLY WETLANDS YIELDS Nakano, Yuko Bamba, Ibrahim Diagne, Aliou Otsuka, Keijiro Kajisa, Kei The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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This paper investigates the potential of
and constraints to a rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan
Africa's large-scale irrigation schemes, using data
from Uganda, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and
Senegal. The authors find that adequate irrigation, chemical
fertilizer, and labor inputs are the key to high
productivity. Chemical fertilizer is expensive in Uganda and
Mozambique and is barely used. This is aggravated when water
access is limited because of the complementarities between
fertilizer and irrigation. Meanwhile, in the schemes located
in four countries in West Africa's Sahel region, where
water access is generally good and institutional support for
chemical fertilizer exists, rice farmers achieve attractive
yields. Some countries' wage rate is high and thus
mechanization could be one solution for this constraint.
Improvement of credit access also facilitates the purchase
of expensive fertilizer or the employment of hired labor. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Nakano, Yuko Bamba, Ibrahim Diagne, Aliou Otsuka, Keijiro Kajisa, Kei |
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Nakano, Yuko Bamba, Ibrahim Diagne, Aliou Otsuka, Keijiro Kajisa, Kei |
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Nakano, Yuko |
| title |
The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full |
The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed |
The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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possibility of a rice green revolution in large-scale irrigation schemes in sub-saharan africa |
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2012 |
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http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110207101601 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3329 |
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