Introduction: Challenges to Africa's Agricultural Transformation

Introduction to Transformation Groups

These are the notes from a course that was an introduction to the theory of finite (or compact) transformation groups, including basic definitions and facts, standard examples, algebraic restrictions, fundamental constructions, all with an emphasis on group actions on manifolds in lowdimensional geometric topology. There is a focus on problems and results that have interesting versions in low d...

Introduction to Compact Transformation Groups

Agricultural Mechanisation for Transformation

This paper concludes that, for economic development, and to ensure survival, Kenya and similar countries must industrialize their economy and mechanize their agriculture using modern large scale methods. Keywords—Agriculture, mechanazation, transformation, industrialization.

Challenges to Agricultural Financing in Mali

CHALLENGES TO AGRICULTURE FINANCING IN MALI By Kadidia Konare In Mali, like in many Sub-Saharan countries, inadequate access to credit has remained a central concern for farmers and a key constraint to the modernization and diversification of their activities. The commercial banks’ limited participation in agricultural financing and the hard terms and conditions for obtaining individual loans h...

Constraints to Increasing Agricultural Production and Productivity among Women Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Agricultural Transformation Agenda

Agriculture is an important engine of growth and poverty reduction in much of Africa, Nigeria inclusive. But the sector is underperforming in part because women, who are often crucial resource in agriculture and rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. An understanding of these constraints is a prerequisite to devising policies to improve agricultural production and produ...