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This 9 page paper considers the challenges an operations manager might face in managing an agricultural company in Africa. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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how changes in control system affect employee performance via improved motivation. It also looks at how innovation in companies has been supported or discouraged. Finally, it recommends changes that an
organization could make to improve its effectiveness. The report ends with a personal reflection on ways to make all this happen. Discussion This has proven to be a difficult
topic to pin down; searches for "agricultural companies Africa" and similar efforts are turning up a wide variety of information that is too broad to be useful. However, one site,
that of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation, discusses the lessons it has learned and strategies implemented over a three year period of working in Africa. It seems like a good
starting point. The vision of the AATF is "Prosperous farmers and a food secure Africa, enabled through AATFs catalytic role in bringing innovative technologies to smallholder farmers" (AATF strategy, 2008).
The AATF believes that it is of the utmost important for agriculture to play an increasing part in African development in both the private and public sectors (AATF strategy, 2008).
To this end, the organization suggests it is necessary to develop proprietary technology, mitigate the risks "associated with the adoption of new technology, and ... [facilitate] productive partnerships that strengthen
Africas agriculture" (AATF strategy, 2008). AATF explains three strategies that it is using to develop African agriculture; these may be extrapolated to a specific company and see if they
work in that setting. The first is to negotiate access to proprietary technologies that will enhance agricultural productivity in Africa (AATF strategy, 2008). AATF keeps up with the "latest information
about agricultural production constraints and priorities in Africa and is familiar with major national, regional and Africa-wide policies on agricultural development" (AATF strategy, 2008). The organization pays much more attention
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