This Open Access book explores the multifaceted nature of agricultural and rural development in
Asia and examines the extent to which the Asian experience is being replicated in contemporary
Africa. This volume compiles the works of top scholars who provided analyses and evidences from
household-level surveys collected for many years in several parts of Asia and Africa. The most
important finding presented in this book is that African agricultural development has evolved
following the pathways of Asian agricultural development. The common pathways are borrowed
technology from abroad and adaptive research in rice farming secured property rights on
natural resources adoption of ICTs investments in human capital including training and
launching of the high-value agriculture. In both continents agricultural development started
in the crop sector which had a strong tendency to induce the dynamic development of other
sectors in rural areas.
