IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/aaechp/978-3-031-19527-3_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Introduction: Pandemic Preparedness and A-Platonic Policies for Transforming Africa’s Agri-food Systems

In: Agricultural Transformation in Africa

Author

Listed:
  • Gbadebo Odularu

    (Virginia Military Institute (VMI)
    Bay Atlantic University (BAU)
    Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)
    United States Institute for Advancing Community Development Through Interdisciplinary Scientific Research and Education (USI-ADMIRE))

Abstract

Most post-independence African countries have not succeeded in achieving rapid and sustainable economic development over the past five decades. In view of this, it is reasonable to suspect that poor agricultural performance may be a significant contributory factor to the unsatisfactory performance in the region. One of the challenges facing Africa is how to deepen agriculture more systemically towards realizing sustainable development than it has done over the last five decades. How can this be achieved? It is within this context that this introductory chapter seeks to emphasize the need for a-platonifying Africa’s agricultural deepening and development planning policies and programmes. In addition, this article discusses the platonic nature of Africa’s development and recommends some SARS-CoV-2 pandemic responsive strategies within the concept of platonic policies.

Suggested Citation

  • Gbadebo Odularu, 2023. "The Introduction: Pandemic Preparedness and A-Platonic Policies for Transforming Africa’s Agri-food Systems," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Gbadebo O. A. Odularu (ed.), Agricultural Transformation in Africa, pages 1-7, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-031-19527-3_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19527-3_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-031-19527-3_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.