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Author : Geoff Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121887090
Author : Woldezion Mesghinna
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1457539632
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the portion of Africa located south of the Sahara Desert. It comprises most of the African continent and is home to the majority of Africa's population. Unfortunately, despite SSA's bounty of natural and human resources, the region is facing an ever-worsening food-security crisis largely due to stagnant and, in many cases, declining agricultural productivity combined with rapid unchecked population growth. The result has been widespread and endemic malnutrition, hunger and poverty, and the severe degradation of the region's environment. Confronted by these problems and more, SSA faces a bleak future of starvation and social collapse if traditional rainfed subsistence farming continues to be the dominant agricultural production system employed by the region's farmers. Traditional rainfed agriculture is practiced on 95% of the land currently being cultivated in SSA. It is in this context that this book, in an effort to help SSA countries, provides a comprehensive guide to science-engineering-based principles and methods that, if broadly implemented in conjunction with supporting government public policies and programs, could substantially and sustainably increase their domestic food production and associated improvements in living standards, reduce poverty, and foster multi-sector economic growth critical to the region's eventual ascension to industrialization. Dr. Woldezion Mesghinna is an Eritrean American who immigrated to the United States in the 1970s. He attended Cornell University, where he received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in civil engineering, and later attended Utah State University, where he received his PhD in agricultural engineering, with a primary focus in irrigation and drainage engineering. Dr. Mesghinna is a registered professional engineer in California, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, and has testified extensively as an expert witness on water rights cases in the United States. He is the principal engineer and president of Natural Resources Consulting Engineers, Inc. (NRCE), which he founded in 1989. NRCE is a civil, environmental, agricultural, and water resources engineering firm that provides consulting engineering services in a wide variety of areas both domestically and abroad. Dr. Mesghinna has simultaneously managed the implementation of complex multipurpose water resources project developments in Africa, in the United States, and especially for Native American tribes. Dr. Mesghinna is fluent in English, Tigrigna, and Amharic.
Author : Lawrence James Haddad
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780896293359
Author : James J. Hentz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135082116
This new Handbook examines the issues, challenges, and debates surrounding the problem of security in Africa. Africa is home to most of the world's current conflicts, and security is a key issue. However, African security can only be understood by employing different levels of analysis: the individual (human security), the state (national/state security), and the region (regional/international security). Each of these levels provides analytical tools for understanding what could be called the "African security predicament" and these debates are animated by the "new security" issues: immigration, small arms transfers, gangs and domestic crime, HIV/AIDS, transnational crime, poverty, and environmental degradation. African security therefore not only presents concrete challenges for international security but provides a real-world context for challenging conventional conceptions of security. Drawing together contributions from a wide range of key thinkers in the field, the Routledge Handbook of African Security engages with these debates, and is organized into four parts: Part I: The African security predicament in the twenty-first century; Part II: Understanding conflict in Africa; Part III: Regionalism and Africa; Part IV: External influences. This Handbook will be of great interest to students of African politics, human security, global security, war and conflict studies, peacebuilding, and IR in general.
Author : Barakat Mahmoud
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781789857337
This edited volume “Food Security in Africa” is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of food safety and availability, water issues, farming and nutrition. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the public health and food security research area. All chapters are complete in itself but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on Africa’s food security challenges, quality of water, small-scale farming as well as economic and social challenges that this continent is facing. Hopefully, this volume will open new possible research paths for further novel developments.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008886231
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Author : Adu-Amanfoh Francis
Publisher : Author House
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781491891599
The works of contemporary global security and political analysts, and experiences from today's highly industrialized nations, conclude that the existence of peace and security, effective and exemplary political leadership, and sustained entrepreneurship are critical ingredients and catalysts for national socio-economic development. Certainly, these ingredients have helped in building the nations of the 'developed world, ' but how can these ingredients help the nations of the 'emerging world'? This book searches for a response and lessons to be learnt. Hence, the purpose of the book, essentially, is to examine the roles that peace and security, political leadership, and entrepreneurship can play in the sustainable socio-economic development of emerging countries, exemplified by sub-Saharan Africa. The book first reviews the nature of the 'emerging world', discusses the subject matter in detail, and concludes with a compendium of lessons to be learnt by, primarily, political leaders, national security practitioners, entrepreneurs and investors, and academicians
Author : Lawrence Haddad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0896293386
Author : Diane E. Chido
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : OCLC:834540362
Prevention is the key to effective policies in Africa, whether the issue is equitable resource exploitation, ethnic conflict, infectious diseases, or famine. African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have moved beyond their initial purpose of a loose confederation of trading partners to become increasingly effective supranational bodies promoting financial, political, and security stabilization in each of their regions. Looking at each of the RECs, their power centers, and areas of weakness, policymakers can gain a more comprehensive understanding of the sometimes symbiotic and often destructive dynamics within and among African states to seek more effective strategic and regional, not national, approaches. This monograph suggests USAFRICOM is uniquely positioned to help design a path to spearhead a pan-African strategy highly likely to have the net long-term effect of attaining considerable competitive advantage for the U.S. economically, militarily, and politically, with a corresponding increase in stability, security, and economic opportunity for the entire continent.
Author : Ken Booth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : IND:30000035586076
Author : Blal Adem Esmail,Davide Geneletti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030456665
The book addresses the challenges of urban water security and adaptive management in Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring and interlinking novel concepts of ecosystems services, watershed investments, and boundary work. Specifically, the book’s goals are to (i) present a conceptual framework for the urban water sector from an ecosystem services perspective, highlighting the specificities of the Sub-Saharan context; (ii) develop an operational approach to designing and assessing the impacts of watershed investments, based on ecosystem services and boundary work; and (iii) test the approach through a case study in Asmara, Eritrea, and discuss the findings and lessons learned that can be applied in other contexts. Through a fully worked out case study, from identification of water challenges and opportunities to spatially explicit modelling, the book offers a sound and accessible, coverage of issues and proposed solutions to better operationalize ecosystem services, watershed investments and boundary work, to promote adaptive management, and achieve water security in the context of rapidly developing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book is an effective tool for capacity building of diverse stakeholders on the urban water sector, including water managers, local and national policy-makers as well as a suitable resource for both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in planning and geography.
Author : Stephen Emerson,Hussein Solomon
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526122766
This book explores and analyses the evolving African security paradigm in light of the multitude of diverse threats and challenges facing the continent and the international community. It challenges current thinking and traditional security constructs as woefully inadequate to meet the real security needs of African governments and their 1 billion plus citizens in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world. Through the lens of human security the authors’ examine the continent’s most pressing security challenges—from identity conflict and failing states to terrorism, disease, and environmental degradation—and in doing so provide a comprehensive look at the complexities of building peace and stability in modern-day Africa. Not only does the book critically assess the state of progress in addressing security challenges, but it presents new strategies and tools for more effectively engaging Africans and the global community in their common search for solutions.
Author : Weldeghaber Kidane,Materne Maetz,Philippe Dardel,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Sub-Regional Office for Southern and East Africa
Publisher : FAO
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : IND:30000115599387
"This publication contains the main report of a study championing the case for increased public support to agricultural and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It advances four main reasons why agriculture in SSA deserves more public support. The first is a moral imperative: SSA governments cannot and should not ignore a sector on which about 70 percent of their population directly depend for their livelihoods if they are serious about their commitment to MDG1. Second, in spite of its generally poor performance, SSA countries do not have any realistic strategic option that they can rely upon for achieving sustainable economic development other than agriculture. Third, there is evidence from a number of SSA countries that appropriate policies and direct public sector investment have combined to trigger agriculture sector-led economic growth. This publication argues for countries to build on their success stories and for others to explore such opportunities, taking into account their specific environmental, economic and social conditions. Fourth, on average, agriculture in SSA has generally performed better than most other sectors, except in countries endowed with mineral resources."--Publisher's description.
Author : Roger Calow,Eva Ludi,Josephine Tucker
Publisher : Practical Action
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1853397369
Based on extensive field research and in-depth interviews, Achieving Water Security draws conclusions for policy and practice of relevance not just for Ethiopia, but for sub-Saharan Africa more widely, linking findings with current international debates on service delivery in rural areas.
Author : Negatu, Workneh,Musahara, Herman
Publisher : OSSREA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789994455874
These papers address roles and issues related to social and institutional innovations and approaches in food security in Southern and Eastern Africa. They include implementation of food security policy, rural livelihood and agricultural innovation, land consolidation for food security, interdisciplinary school-based health for food security, harnessing indigenous and modern knowledge for food security, household food resource handling for food security, institutions for technological innovation, the role of land tax in food security, trade protectionism and food security, and gender-power relations in food security.
