Incluye bibliografía.

1. Introduction / Uma Lele -- 2. The MADIA countries: aid inflows, endowments, policies, and performance / Uma Lele -- 3. The World Bank's experience in the MADIA countries: agricultural development and foreign assistance / Uma Lele and Rahul Jain -- 4. Danish development assistance to Tanzania and Kenya, 1962-85: its importance to agricultural development / Ellen Hanak and Michael Loft -- 5. Swedish aid to Kenya and Tanzania: its effect on rural development, 1970-84 / Marian Radetzki -- 6. United States activities to promote agricultural and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa / Bruce F. Johnston, Allan Hobe, and William K. Jaeger -- 7. European Communities assistance for agricultural development in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania, 1960-87 / Walter Kennes -- 8. French economic cooperation with Senegal and Cameroon: rural development from independence to the present / Claude Freud -- 9. British aid to agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania / John Howell -- 10. German aid to agriculture in the MADIA countries of Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, and Tanzania / Christian Heimpel and Manfred Schulz -- 11. Food aid and development in the MADIA countries / John W. Mellor and Rajul Pandya-Lorch -- 12. Aid to african agriculture: lessons from two decades of donors' experience / Uma Lele and Rahul Jain

The book opens with an overview of the broad trends in donor assistance to the six countries under investigation and an analysis of country performance based on data from the records of governments and donors. Discussions are organized around several topics: 1) the policies donors adopted toward promoting agriculture; 2) how recipients ' perceptions of their development needs and priorities influenced the amount and form of aid given; 3) the context of assistance; 4) how strategic, commercial, and humanitarian constituencies in donor countries influenced the level and content of assistance programs; and 5) the comparative advantage of donors with respect to their ability to provide agricultural or other specific kinds of assistance. The book does not cover livestock and forestry in any detail, although both play an important role in alleviating poverty and in ensuring environmental sustainability. The book ends with an assessment of the donors ' effect on country policies and performance and outlines the study ' s implications for future donor assistance.