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Author : International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows. Symposium
Publisher : IITA
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9789781312984
Author : Stephen Devereux,Simon Maxwell
Publisher : ITDG Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110194953
Most contributions reflect an evolution of thinking during the 1990s.
Author : M. B. Ndulo
Publisher : CABI
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 184593914X
Dramatic increases in food prices, as witnessed on a global scale in recent years, threaten the food security of hundreds of millions of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. This book focuses on recent food and financial crises as they have affected Africa, illustrating the problems using country case studies, that cover their origins, effects on agriculture and rural poverty, their underlying factors and making recommendations as to how such crises could best be addressed in the future.
Author : Hamid Tabatabai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040600319
Author : Doris Wiesmann
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
"This paper uses data from national household expenditure surveys to explore whether food insecurity is more severe in South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa. It employs two indicators of the diet quantity dimension of food insecurity, or the inability to access sufficient food: the prevalence of food energy deficiency and the prevalence of severe food energy deficiency. It also employs two indicators of the diet quality dimension, indicating lack of access to nutritious food: the prevalence of low diet diversity and the percent of energy from staple foods. It finds the regions' food energy deficiency prevalences to be quite close (51 percent in South Asia, 57 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa). However, the prevalence of severe food energy deficiency, which is more life threatening, is higher in Sub-Saharan Africa (51 percent versus 35 percent in South Asia). From a diet quality standpoint, the regions appear to suffer from a comparable and high reliance on staple foods in the diet to the neglect of foods rich in protein and micronutrients, but that Sub-Saharan Africa may be doing worse, as reflected in less diverse diets. The results confirm that both regions suffer from deep food insecurity problems but point to Sub-Saharan Africa as the region with the more severe problem, particularly when it comes to the diet quantity dimension of food insecurity. In deciding which region should be given greater emphasis in the international allocation of scarce development resources, the fact that the numbers of people affected by food insecurity are higher in South Asia should be taken into consideration."IFPRI web site
Author : Diogo Miguel Salgado Baptista,Mrs. Mai Farid,Dominique Fayad,Laurent Kemoe,Loic S Lanci,Ms. Pritha Mitra,Tara S Muehlschlegel,Cedric Okou,John A Spray,Kevin Tuitoek,Ms. Filiz D Unsal
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798400218507
Climate change is intensifying food insecurity across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with lasting adverse macroeconomic effects, especially on economic growth and poverty. Successive shocks from the war in Ukraine and COVID-19 pandemic have increased food prices and depressed incomes, raising the number of people suffering from high malnutrition and unable to meet basic food consumption needs by at least 30 percent to 123 million in 2022 or 12 percent of SSA’s population. Addressing the lack of resilience to climate change—that critically underlies food insecurity in SSA—will require careful policy prioritization against a backdrop of financing and capacity constraints. This paper presents some key considerations and examples of tradeoffs and complementarities across policies to address food insecurity. Key findings include (1) Fiscal policies focused on social assistance and efficient public infrastructure investment can improve poorer households’ access to affordable food, facilitate expansion of climate-resilient and green agricultural production, and support quicker recovery from adverse climate events; (2) Improving access to finance is key to stepping up private investment in agricultural resilience and productivity as well as improving the earning capacity and food purchasing power of poorer rural and urban households; and (3) Greater regional trade integration, complemented with resilient transport infrastructure, enables sales of one country’s bumper harvests to its neighbors’ facing shortages. The international community can help with financial assistance—especially for the above-mentioned social assistance and key infrastructure areas—capacity development, and facilitating transfers of technology and know-how.
Author : Y. Tekolla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000066062898
Author : Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H. Katz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2881243320
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Victor Lavy
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Distribucion de alimentos - Africa
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Food aid compensates for up to half the drop in food production during food crises in Sub-Saharan Africa; imports make up another 30 percent. Both stabilize food consumption and neutralize the effects of random shocks to domestic food production.
Author : Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000113761
Originally published in 1990. Produced by the Task Force on African Famine of the American Anthropological Association, this is the first of a multi-part project dealing with the long-term and ongoing food crisis in Africa primarily at the level of local production-the microperspective. It offers a series of anthropological and ecological views on the cause of the current problem and on coping strategies used by both indigenous people and developmental planners. The three sections of this volume review current explanations for food problems in Africa, focusing mainly on production and consumption at the household level; they offer a number of perspectives on the environmental, historical, political, and economic contexts for food stress, and include a series of case studies showing the ways in which Africans have responded to the threat of drought and hunger. The extent of research and the degree of scholarship involved in the production of this volume recommend it to all persons concerned with this ultimately global dilemma, particularly those involved in planning and relief efforts.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9781428909861
Author : Woldezion Mesghinna
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Dorosh, Paul A.,Babu, Suresh Chandra
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Armed conflict combined with prolonged drought has put about 20 million people at risk of starvation and death in Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, and northern Nigeria. The international development and aid communities are caught between the enormity of the humanitarian crisis, which demands an estimated US$4.4 billion to address, and the lack of resources forthcoming from donors. Food crises, famine-like conditions, and famines recur with regularity in many developing countries (see Box 1 for definitions of terms). Although the current famines can be largely attributed to conflicts, chronic food insecurity also threatens several other African countries. For example, 6.7 million people were affected by Malawi’s largest food crisis in decades in 2016–2017, and the country remains vulnerable to weather extremes that could create food emergencies (World Bank 2017). In Kenya, food security has deteriorated since the end of 2016 and half of its 47 counties face food shortages (Chatterjee and Mengistu 2017). How do countries prepare to prevent shocks—natural and man-made—from generating food crises? What does it take to break the cycle of chronic food insecurity and build resilient food systems? How have some countries managed to prevent drought from leading to famine? In this brief, we document lessons for building resilient food systems to prevent future famines.
Author : Peter R. Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4396503
Conference papers on the relationship between international economic recession and food shortages in Africa - looks at the current depression in an historical perspective, and its impact on SADCC, etc.; analyses the role of the IMF and World Bank, partic. In Sudan and Tanzania; includes country case studies of trends in food production, hunger, starvation, drought and emergency relief, social conflicts and migrant worker issues. Bibliography, statistical tables.
Author : Thomas Melito
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437908220
Despite pledges by world leaders to halve the proportion of the world¿s population that is undernourished by 2015, the number of undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa has increased from 170 million in the period of 1990-1992 to over 200 million in the period of 2001-2003. Since early 2007, food-related riots have occurred in 15 countries, incl. 7 in sub-Saharan Africa, leading both the U.N. and the World Food Program to express concern about the impact of chronic undernourishment, or food insecurity, on world peace and security. This report examined: factors that contribute to persistent food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa; and the extent to which host governments and donors, incl. the U.S., are working toward halving hunger in the region by 2015. Illus.