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Author : Chinedum Uzoma Nwajiuba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : UOM:39015057644463
Author : Olubukola Oluranti Babalola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030506728
This book focuses on food security and safety issues in Africa, a continent presently challenged with malnutrition and food insecurity. The continuous increase in the human population of Africa will lead to higher food demands, and climate change has already affected food production in most parts of Africa, resulting in drought, reduced crop yields, and loss of livestock and income. For Africa to be food-secure, safe and nutritious food has to be available, well-distributed, and sufficient to meet people’s food requirements. Contributors to Food Security and Safety: African Perspectives offer solutions to the lack of adequate safe and nutritious food in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as highlight the positive efforts being made to address this lack through a holistic approach. The book discusses the various methods used to enhance food security, such as food fortification, fermentation, genetic modification, and plant breeding for improved yield and resistance to diseases. Authors emphasize the importance of hygiene and food safety in food preparation and preservation, and address how the constraints of climate change could be overcome using smart crops. As a comprehensive reference text, Food Security and Safety: African Perspectives seeks to address challenges specific to the African continent while enhancing the global knowledge base around food security, food safety, and food production in an era of rapid climate change.
Author : Ade Olomola,A. C. Nwosu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Agricultural industries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070082271
Author : Mr. Alun H. Thomas,Ms. Rima A Turk
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798400236921
Against the backdrop of high international food and fertilizer prices, this paper discusses food insecurity in Nigeria, investigates its drivers in a cross-country setting, and assesses the role of policies. Using two proxies for food security, we find that high per capita consumption, high yields and low food inflation support food security. Cross-country estimates of yields and production provided by the FAO/OECD reveal that use of inputs is lower in Nigeria than in other countries, and that policies to raise crop yields positively correlate with better food security conditions. The paper also uses detailed domestic commodity price indices to assess linkages with international prices and the role of import bans. Central bank policies for funding agriculture and import bans have not managed to stimulate agricultural output nor moderated the impact of international food prices. Rather, policies should focus on use of inputs that are severely underused in Nigeria as elsewhere in SSA.
Author : Margaret A. Mohamed-Salih,Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed Salih
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171063595
Agro-ecosystems, by Eric C. Quaye
Author : J. K. Olayemi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000060925835
Author : Amare, Mulubrhan,Abay, Kibrom A.,Tiberti, Luca,Chamberlin, Jordan
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to quantify the overall and differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security, labor market participation and local food prices in Nigeria. We exploit spatial variation in exposure to COVID-19 related infections and lockdown measures along with temporal differences in our outcomes of interest using a difference-in-difference approach. We find that those households exposed to higher COVID-19 cases or mobility lockdowns experience a significant increase in measures of food insecurity. Examining possible transmission channels for this effect, we find that COVID-19 significantly reduces labor market participation and increases food prices. We find that impacts differ by economic activities and households. For instance, lockdown measures increased households' experience of food insecurity by 12 percentage points and reduced the probability of participation in non-farm business activities by 13 percentage points. These lockdown measures have smaller impacts on wage-related activities and farming activities. In terms of food security, households relying on non-farm businesses, poorer households, those with school-aged children, and those living in remote and conflicted-affected zones have experienced relatively larger deteriorations in food insecurity. These findings can help inform immediate and medium-term policy responses, including social protection policies aiming at ameliorating the impacts of the pandemic, as well as guide targeting strategies of governments and international donor agencies by identifying the most impacted sub-populations.
Author : Mesay Kebede Duguma
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643906083
This book draws attention to the livelihood and food security situation of women farmers, a topic largely neglected by academic studies. It elucidates in a detailed empirical examination, the impact of informal social institutions on food security and coping strategies of these households in the Meskan district of southern Ethiopia. The area is environmentally and socially challenged. The results develop an understanding of the gender dimension of food (in)security and present important implications for public policy. (Series: Spectrum. Berlin Series on Society, Economy and Politics in Developing Countries / Spektrum. Berliner Reihe zu Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik in Entwicklungslandern - Vol. 110) [Subject: Sociology, African Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Agricultural Studies]
Author : D. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230589780
This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all. It provides a reference source for all those involved and interested in food security issues.
Author : Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,Viviene Taylor
Publisher : Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781775820727
The right to food is guaranteed in South Africa’s Constitution as it is in international law. Yet food insecurity remains widespread and persistent, at levels much higher than in countries with similar levels of per capita GDP and development, such as Brazil. In this book, leading local and international researchers on food security and related policy work have come together to create the first systematic and trans-disciplinary analysis of food security and its multiple dimensions in South Africa and the southern African region. Drawing on Amartya Sen’s entitlement theory to identify the key drivers of hunger, they see food insecurity as a chronic, structurally based condition rather than only resulting from natural environmental disasters, temporary economic shocks and household vulnerabilities. The authors focus on a range of policy options and choices to provide short-term and longer-term solutions to the systemic causes of unemployment, failing rural livelihoods and traditional subsistence production. They also emphasise the linkages between the social and economic dimensions of food insecurity and use an integrative, interdisciplinary approach to analyse the reasons why these conditions persist and what can be done to address them. Importantly the book brings together work undertaken at local and national levels in new ways so that policy-makers, researchers, human rights advocates and social and economic scholars are better able to make the links between macro- and micro-processes of development.
Author : Stephen Morse,The Reverend Sister Nora MacNamara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030463595
This book explores how social groups in the urban fringe of Abuja, Nigeria, engaged with a series of development projects spanning 15 years (2003 to 2018) which focused on the enhancement of food security for farming households. The groups were at the heart of these development projects and the book presents the many insights that were gained by farmers and project agents working within these partnerships and provides advice for those seeking to do the same. The book also explores how the social groups attempted to lever benefits from being near to the fastest growing city in Africa and a centre of economic and political power. While much has been written about social groups and their embeddedness within wider social networks in Africa and in other parts of the world, the exploration of the role of social groups within development projects is an area that remains relatively unchartered and this book seeks to fill that important gap in knowledge. It provides an important contribution for all those researching and working with social groups in the developing world.
Author : Adebambo Adewopo,Jane Ezirigwe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9785502090
Author : Luke Amadi,Fidelis Allen
Publisher : Engineering Science Reference
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Food consumption
ISBN : 1799801268
"This book addresses the divergent development challenges of contemporary unsustainable food consumption. It also examines food politics and provides alternative development trajectories that could be useful in understanding the development realities of unsustainable food consumption"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Olubukola Oluranti Babalola,Ayansina Segun Ayangbenro,Omena Bernard Ojuederie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031096143
Sustainable food production is a global challenge with respect to climate change and an ever-increasing world population. Conventional crop production using agrochemicals presents human health and environmental challenges. Rising concerns about environmental sustainability have increased attention toward improved, efficient, and sustainable means of crop production. Various strategies are employed in enhancing crop production to adapt and mitigate climate change and ensure food security. The future of food production relies on improving productivity without compromising long-term productivity and environmental sustainability. Feeding the ever-increasing world population would require concerted efforts by all stakeholders to combat the impact of climate change and numerous ecological challenges facing food production. Hence, innovative technologies and methods are indispensable in mitigating the effects on food security. The book looks at the current challenges and solutions, from an African perspective, regarding food safety and health management, food security and nutrition, climate change and sustainable food production, and forest resources and food security. The target audience is scientists, graduate students, researchers, academicians, and professionals in food production for sustainable development and ecosystem management. This book will also be helpful to policymakers and specialists in framing future feasible agro-ecosystem policies.
Author : Mohamed Behnassi,Sidney Draggan,Sanni Yaya
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400708907
Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages, economic crises and growing competition for the use of renewable and non renewable resources. This challenge is even more crucial given that we have not yet come close to achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger. Scientists and relevant stakeholders are now voicing a clear message: that multiple challenges the world is facing require innovative, multifaceted, science-based, technological, economic and political approaches in theoretical thinking, decision making and action. With this background central to survival and well-being, the purpose of this volume is to formulate and promote relevant theoretical analysis and policy recommendations. The major perspective of this publication is that paradigm and policy shifts at all levels are needed urgently. This is based on the evidence that agriculture in the 21st century will be undergoing significant demands, arising largely from the need to increase the global food enterprise, while adjusting and contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Global Food Insecurity aims at providing structure to effect achievement of this critically needed roadmap.
