Author | : Stephen Devereux |
File Size | : 41,6 Mb |
Publisher | : ITDG Publishing |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 06 May 2024 |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105110194953 |
Pages | : 376 pages |
Food Security in Sub Saharan Africa by Stephen Devereux Book PDF Summary
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. The authors are all food security experts with long experience of research and advisory work in Africa.