Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853395234
• ISBN13: 9781853395239
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: ITDG Publishing
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"