Digging Deeper: Inside Africa’s Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Dynamics

This volume attempts to dig deeper into what is currently happening in Africa’s agricultural and rural sector. It seeks to convince policymakers and others that it is important to look at the current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with value chain improvements and agro-food cluster innovations. It is essential to go beyond a ‘development bureaucracy’ and a state-based approach to rural transformation, such as the one that often dominates policy debate in African government circles, organizations like the African Union and the UN, and donor agencies.

This book has been published in the African Dynamics Series, Volume 13, Brill Publishers. African Dynamics is an annual publication of the Africa Studies Centre, Leiden. Each year, a different theme is discussed from various perspectives by scholars from all over the world. Editors of this year's volume: Akinyinka Akinyoade, Wijnand Klaver, Dick Foeken (all ASC Leiden) and Sebastiaan Soeters (University of Utrecht, formerly ASC Leiden). Contributing authors from the ASC: Ton Dietz, André Leliveld and Marcel Rutten.