Food Security For Rural Africa

Author : Terry Leahy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367665751

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Food Security for Rural Africa by Terry Leahy Pdf

At least fifty years of projects aimed at the rural poor in Africa have had very little impact. Up to half of the children of these countries are still suffering from stunting and malnutrition. Soil degradation and poor crop yields are ubiquitous. Projects are almost always aimed at helping local people to solve their problems by growing for the market. In some countries, projects link poor villagers into cooperatives to produce a commercial output. In other countries, projects target more competent entrepreneurial villagers. Almost all these projects fail after several years. Even those that are successful make few inroads into the problems. While the slogan 'feeding the farmers first' comes from the Philippines, it is particularly applicable to much of Africa, where household food security can come from household production. This book explains how projects can be designed that increase food security through subsistence production. Focusing on particular people and projects, it gives a sociological analysis of why this is so difficult to manage. This book challenges the models promoted by academics in the field of development studies and argues against the strategies adopted by most donor organizations and government bodies.It explains why commercial projects have been so ubiquitous even though they rarely work. It gives practical tips on how to set up villages and farms to achieve sustainable solutions that also provide plenty of nutritious food. The book is written to be accessible and engaging. For anyone planning to work in the rural areas of Africa, this book is required reading.

Author : Scott Drimie,Simphiwe Mini
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Food supply
ISBN : 0796920281

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Food Security and Sustainable Development in Southern Africa by Scott Drimie,Simphiwe Mini Pdf

Southern Africa experienced acute food shortages during 2002 and 2003.

Author : Barakat Mahmoud
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781789857337

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Food Security in Africa by Barakat Mahmoud Pdf

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 : Terry Leahy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351134132

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Food Security for Rural Africa by Terry Leahy Pdf

At least fifty years of projects aimed at the rural poor in Africa have had very little impact. Up to half of the children of these countries are still suffering from stunting and malnutrition. Soil degradation and poor crop yields are ubiquitous. Projects are almost always aimed at helping local people to solve their problems by growing for the market. In some countries, projects link poor villagers into cooperatives to produce a commercial output. In other countries, projects target more competent entrepreneurial villagers. Almost all these projects fail after several years. Even those that are successful make few inroads into the problems. While the slogan 'feeding the farmers first' comes from the Philippines, it is particularly applicable to much of Africa, where household food security can come from household production. This book explains how projects can be designed that increase food security through subsistence production. Focusing on particular people and projects, it gives a sociological analysis of why this is so difficult to manage. This book challenges the models promoted by academics in the field of development studies and argues against the strategies adopted by most donor organizations and government bodies.It explains why commercial projects have been so ubiquitous even though they rarely work. It gives practical tips on how to set up villages and farms to achieve sustainable solutions that also provide plenty of nutritious food. The book is written to be accessible and engaging. For anyone planning to work in the rural areas of Africa, this book is required reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004282698

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Digging Deeper: Inside Africa’s Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Dynamics by Anonim Pdf

This volume attempts to dig deeper into what is currently happening in Africa’s agricultural and rural sector and to convince policymakers and others that it is important to look at the current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with value chain improvements and agro-food cluster innovations. It is essential to go beyond a ‘development bureaucracy’ and a state-based approach to rural transformation, such as the one that often dominates policy debate in African government circles, organizations like the African Union and the UN, and donor agencies.

Author : Lawrence James Haddad
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780896293359

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Achieving Food Security in Southern Africa by Lawrence James Haddad Pdf

Author : Workneh Negatu,Herman Musahara
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789994455973

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Innovations in Achieving Sustainable Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa by Workneh Negatu,Herman Musahara Pdf

Innovations in Achieving Sustainable Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa addresses 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, role of land tax in food security, trade protectionism and food security, and gender-power relations in food security.

Author : Olusegun Obasanjo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135844622

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The Challenges Of Agricultural Production And Food Security In Africa by Olusegun Obasanjo Pdf

The agricultural and rural crisis besetting Africa is the result of both policy failures and inadequacies and the product of structural rigidities inhibiting access to and control of vital resources. The challenge of leadership in the agricultural sector is how to design and implement policies which would help induce growth and development in this sector. It is against this background that the Africa Leadership Forum convened in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria in July of 1989 to explore a broad range of parameters to be addressed in the formulation of successful policies. This volume is derived from papers submitted and presentations made. The book provides the main conclusions and recommendations which emanated from the conference. They highlight a series of actions which must be taken in such areas as women in agriculture, small-scale farmers, agribusiness, subsidies, human capital, and linkages between international and national research anbd energy. Other topics include - Africa's security situation; social and economic factors, ecology, and social engineering; dietary patterns in Africa; pest management; agricultural practice; and international organizations. It is aimed at economists, anthropologists, ecologists, agriculturalists, social and political scientists, and all those interested or involved in agricultural production in Africa and other underdeveloped countries.

Author : Jonathan Crush,Jane Battersby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319435671

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Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa by Jonathan Crush,Jane Battersby Pdf

This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that, while the concept of food security holds value, it needs to be reconfigured to fit the everyday realities and distinctive trajectory of urbanisation in the region. The book goes on to discuss the urban context, where food insecurity is more a problem of access and changing consumption patterns than of insufficient food production. In closing, it approaches food insecurity in Africa as an increasingly urban problem that requires different responses from those applied to rural populations.

Author : Terry Leahy (Sociologist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 1351134159

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Food Security for Rural Africa by Terry Leahy (Sociologist) Pdf

Food security as a global and African problem -- Low input technologies -- The UK paradigm and an alternative strategy -- How much land do you need? -- Hunger as a fatal strategy : a Zambian case study -- Smoothing out the bumps in food security -- Why do projects fail? What could work? -- Working for food, working for money -- Teaching them to fish : entrepreneurial ideology and rural projects -- What is a farmer? -- Leading farmer projects and rural food security, Uganda -- A permaculture design for a Ugandan household -- An embedded project - Chikukwa -- What to eat to avoid diabetes and heart trouble -- A winning formula : projects that work -- Composting toilets in Africa -- The political economy of food security strategies

Author : Crush, Jonathan,Caesar, Mary
Publisher : Southern African Migration Programme
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920596194

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Food Remittances: Migration and Food Security in Africa by Crush, Jonathan,Caesar, Mary Pdf

There is considerable evidence from across the African continent that a significant proportion of cash remittances to rural areas is spent on food. However, bidirectional food remitting – its drivers, dimensions and impacts – is an underdeveloped research and policy area. This report therefore reviews the current state of knowledge about food remittances in Africa and aims to make a number of contributions to the study of the relationship between migration and food security.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251096291

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Africa: Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2016 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Since 2015 sub-Saharan Africa has experienced severe climate-induced disruptions, affecting the livelihoods of tens of millions of poor households. This has been compounded by civil strife and conflicts, trans-boundary plant and animal pests and diseases, and socio-economic shocks that could reverse years of progress.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,United Nations Economic Commission for Africa,African Union Commission
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251344491

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Africa regional overview of food security and nutrition 2020 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,United Nations Economic Commission for Africa,African Union Commission Pdf

Africa is not on track to meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets to end hunger and ensure access by all people to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round and to end all forms of malnutrition. The number of hungry people on the continent has risen by 47.9 million since 2014 and now stands at 250.3 million, or nearly one-fifth of the population. The 2017, 2018 and 2019 editions of this report explain that this gradual deterioration of food security was due to conflict, weather extremes, and economic slowdowns and downturns, often overlapping. A continued worsening of food security is expected also for 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to hunger, across all countries in Africa millions of people suffer from widespread micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight and obesity are emerging as significant health concerns in many countries. This report shows that the food system in Africa does not provide food at a cost that makes nutritious food affordable to a majority of the population, and this is reflected in the high disease burden associated with maternal and child malnutrition, high body-mass, micronutrient deficiencies and dietary risk factors. The report also shows that current food consumption patterns impose high health and environmental costs, which are not reflected in food prices. The findings presented in this report highlight the importance of prioritizing the transformation of food systems to ensure access to affordable and healthy diets for all, produced in a sustainable manner.

Author : John Dixon,Dennis P. Garrity,Jean-Marc Boffa,Timothy O. Williams,Tilahun Amede,Christopher Auricht,Rosemary Lott,George Mburathi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317332268

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Farming Systems and Food Security in Africa by John Dixon,Dennis P. Garrity,Jean-Marc Boffa,Timothy O. Williams,Tilahun Amede,Christopher Auricht,Rosemary Lott,George Mburathi Pdf

Knowledge of Africa’s complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environmental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security. This book systematically and comprehensively describes the characteristics, trends, drivers of change and strategic priorities for each of Africa’s fifteen farming systems and their main subsystems. It shows how a farming systems perspective can be used to identify pathways to household food security and poverty reduction, and how strategic interventions may need to differ from one farming system to another. In the analysis, emphasis is placed on understanding farming systems drivers of change, trends and strategic priorities for science and policy. Illustrated with full-colour maps and photographs throughout, the volume provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of Africa’s farming systems and pathways for the future to improve food and nutrition security. The book is an essential follow-up to the seminal work Farming Systems and Poverty by Dixon and colleagues for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the World Bank, published in 2001.

Author : Bruce Frayne,Jonathan Crush,Cameron McCordic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351850773

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Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities by Bruce Frayne,Jonathan Crush,Cameron McCordic Pdf

Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to address food poverty in Africa that focus entirely on small-scale farmers, to the exclusion of broader socio-economic and infrastructural approaches, are misplaced and will remain largely ineffective in ameliorating food and nutrition insecurity for the majority of Africans. Using original data from the African Food Security Urban Network’s (AFSUN) extensive database it is demonstrated that the primary food security challenge for urban households is access to food. Already linked into global food systems and value chains, Africa’s supply of food is not necessarily in jeopardy. Rather, the widespread poverty and informal urban fabric that characterizes Africa’s emerging cities impinge directly on households’ capacity to access food that is readily available. Through the analysis of empirical data collected from 6,500 households in eleven cities in nine countries in Southern Africa, the authors identify the complexity of factors and dynamics that create the circumstances of widespread food and nutrition insecurity under which urban citizens live. They also provide useful policy approaches to address these conditions that currently thwart the latent development potential of Africa’s expanding urban population.