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Africa is a continent of huge diversity. Soils, farming systems and rainfall patterns vary enormously both across the continent as a whole, and within countries. We focus on smallholder agriculture in southern and eastern Africa where the dominant smallholder cropping systems are based on maize. It is the productivity of these systems that are of concern to this book. The trends and patterns found in this region have their echoes in other parts of the continent and thus provide a useful proxy for understanding change elsewhere in Africa.
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© 2006 Anne C. Conroy, Malcolm J. Blackie, Alan Whiteside, Justin C. Malewezi and Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Blackie, M., Conroy, A. (2006). The Collapse of Agriculture. In: Poverty, AIDS and Hunger. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627703_6
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