Awakening Africa's sleeping giant: prospects for commercial agriculture in the Guinea Savannah zone and beyond

Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant' explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture. Based on a careful examination of the factors that contributed to the successes achieved in Brazil and Thailand, as well as comparative analysis of evidence obtained through detailed case studies of three African countries-Mozambique, Nigeria, and Zambia-the authors argue that opportunities abound for farmers in Africa to