Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Book Description
Sub-Saharan Africa's persistent food insecurity and vulnerability to famine reflects failures of understanding as much as failures of interventions. Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa aims to contribute towards an improved understanding for more effective food security policy. This book brings together eleven substantial chapters on critical food security issues, and draws on a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from agricultural economics to nutrition. Most contributions reflect an evolution of thinking during the 1990s. Food insecurity is no longer seen simply as a problem of agriculture and a failure of food production at the national level, but instead as a failure of livelihoods to guarantee access to sufficient food at household level. This conceptual shift and related arguments are presented in a clear and accessible way for the non-specialist reader, and are illustrated with empirical data and case studies from across the sub-continent. The authors are all food security experts with long experience of research and advisory work in Africa.
About the Author
Simon Maxwell is Director of the Overseas Development Institute and formerly Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa,Stephen Devereux,Simon Maxwell,Intermediate Technology Development Group Publishing,1853395234,Agriculture - Agronomy,Agriculture - General,Development - Economic Development,Food Science,Food Supply,Science/Mathematics,Technology,Technology & Industrial Arts,Agriculture & related industries,Famine,Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes,Sub-Saharan Africa
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