This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in
sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team's inquiries into determinants
and consequences of new technology adoption in rice farming in seven countries in this region.
Rigorous statistical analyses are carried out by using valuable household data of rice farmers.
The book is actually sequel to the two earlier books on the same subject published by Springer
and edited by K. Otsuka and D.F. Larson An African Green Revolution published in 2013 and In
Pursuit of an African Green Revolution in 2016. The main message of the first book was that
rice is the most promising cereal crop in SSA because of the high transferability of Asian rice
technology whereas that of the second book was that rice cultivation training programs are
effective in significantly increasing rice yield in SSA. This third book has wider coverage in
terms of topics study periods and study sites. It continues to show the significant impacts
of rice cultivation training on productivity and newly demonstrates the high sustainability of
the productivity impact of the training and the existence of spillover effects from trainees to
other farmers by using panel data. We newly assess the important role of mechanization in
intensification of rice farming high returns to large-scale irrigation schemes and the
critical role of rice millers in improving the quality of milled rice. Based on these studies
this book provides clear pathways toward full-fledged Green Revolution in rice farming in
sub-Saharan Africa.
