In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution / Natural Resource Management and Policy Bd.48 (PDF)

Editors Keijiro Otsuka is a professor of development economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. After receiving a Ph.D. in economics from the University Chicago in 1979 and working for the Economic Growth Center of Yale University as a post-doctoral fellow for one year, he served as an associate professor and a professor of economics at the Tokyo Metropolitan University until 2001, when he joined GRIPS, where he served as the director of the International Development Studies Program from 2003 to 2011. He was visiting scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (1986-1989), visiting research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (1993-1998), and lead researcher at the World Bank (2011-2012). He was formerly chairman of the board of trustees of the International Rice Research Institute (2004-2007) and president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (2009-2012). Currently he is chairman of the Oversight Committee of the Global Rice Science Partnership and an adviser to the Coalition for African Rice Development. He has been working extensively on the Green Revolution, land tenancy, property rights and natural resource management, cluster-based industrial development, and the poverty dynamics in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. His studies are primarily survey-based with comparative perspectives between Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has conducted numerous surveys in Japan, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Nepal, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi. He received the Purple Ribbon Medal from the Japanese government in 2010 and was selected as an Honorary Life Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists in 2012, Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (formerly the American Agricultural Economics Association) in 2013, and a Distinguished Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural

“This volume is a collection of empirical studies from six countries in SSA … that carefully examines an important, but still unsolved issue: is a Green Revolution possible in SSA, and if so how? … it sheds new light on the role of management practices in enhancing food productivity, in sharp contrast to most existing literature. … I recommend this book to both researchers and policymakers to use as a reference in policy dialogue.” (The Developing Economies, Vol. 55 (3), September, 2017)