Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1853395234 ISBN 13: 9781853395239

Verlag: Practical Action Publishing, 2001

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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.

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Stephen Devereux is a development economist at IDS Sussex. He is the author of Theories of Famine and has a long interest in food security and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

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• Verlag: Practical Action Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1853395234
• ISBN 13: 9781853395239
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
• Herausgeber: Devereux Stephen, Maxwell Simon