Alternative visions for agricultural growth in Africa: What should governments and markets do?

During this event they discussed factors, like agro-climatic vulnerability, weaker governance, poorer infrastructure, and smaller firms as well as smaller, more landlocked economies, combined with weak service delivery (public goods failures), access to extension provisions (exclusion and discrimination), and high transaction costs (or outright failures) led to a graphic agriculture and market development poverty trap, involving farmers in considerable risk if they opted for change and what seemed to the outside world as the “necessary” transformation of their production.