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Foreign Aid and Sustainable Agriculture in Africa

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This chapter, by Siddig Umbadda and Ismail Elgizouli, directs the focus to agriculture in the African continent, which is undoubtedly highly aid dependent and where for the majority of the population small-scale farming is the anchoring livelihood. They review the history of foreign aid directed to agriculture in Africa and discuss the areas which donors see as strategic for such aid to increase in the future in order to enhance food security and sustainable agricultural systems. The foreign aid landscape for agriculture in Africa shows the long and windy road ahead for enhancing aid effectiveness and its scalability and transferability across the continent in a complex future, where food security under climate change will continue to be a crucial regional and global concern.

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    President Truman’s inaugural speech, 20 January 1948.

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    Address by Mark Malloch Brown, UNDP Administrator, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 12 November 2002.

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    UN Office of the Special Advisor on Africa (2010).

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We are grateful to Samah El-Bakri who provided valuable research assistance, and contributed greatly to the outcome of this paper through her insightful comments.

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    Siddig Umbadda

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    Ismail Elgizouli

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Umbadda, S., Elgizouli, I. (2018). Foreign Aid and Sustainable Agriculture in Africa. In: Huang, Y., Pascual, U. (eds) Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5379-5_11

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