The Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) has recently published a book entitled “African Agriculture and the World Bank: Development or Impoverishment?” edited by Kjell Havnevik, Deborah Bryceson, Lars-Erik Birgegård, Prosper Matondi and Atakilte Beyene
This book is a critical reflection on the analysis and recommendations for African agriculture offered in The World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development, published by the World Bank in October 2007.
The Institute has also organised seminars providing an analysis of World Bank policies and their effects on African agriculture. The seminars have highlighted farmers economic and social choices as well as various central issues facing Africas rural dwellers, such as the increasing displacement of their agrarian labour.
If you did not have an opportunity to attend the seminars you can still download or order the book through this link
www.nai.uu.se/publications/books/book.xml?Language=en&id=25256
Helena Olsson, Marketing Manager, The Nordic Africa Institute, P O Box 1703 SE-751 47 Uppsala, Sweden, Phone 0046-(0) 18 56 22 05, Fax 0046-(0) 18 56 22 90, E-mail: Helena.Olsson@nai.uu.se
