Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen Devereux, Simon Maxwell
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.
Published: 2001
Pages: 368
eBook: 9781780440170
Paperback: 9781853395239
| Prelims (Acknowledgements, List of Boxes, List of Figures, List of Tables, List of Acronyms) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Introduction | |||
| Stephen Devereux and Simon Maxwell | |||
| 2. The Evolution of Thinking about Food Security | |||
| Simon Maxwell | |||
| 3. Agricultural Issues in Food Security | |||
| Simon Maxwell | |||
| 4. Household Food and Livelihood Security | |||
| Jeremy Swift and Kate Hamilton | |||
| 5. Food Security and the Environment | |||
| Susanna Moorehead and William Wolmer | |||
| 6. Famine in Africa | |||
| Stephen Devereux | |||
| 7. Food Marketing | |||
| Bob Baulch | |||
| 8. Food Aid and Trade | |||
| Christopher Stevens and Jane Kennan | |||
| 9. Food Security Information Systems | |||
| Stephen Devereux | |||
| 10. Nutrition and Intervention Strategies | |||
| Helen Young | |||
| 11. Transfers and Safety Nets | |||
| Stephen Devereux | |||
| 12. Organisational Issues in Food Security Planning | |||
| Simon Maxwell | |||
| Back Matter (References, Notes, About the Contributors, Index) |
Stephen Devereux Stephen Devereux is a development economist at IDS Sussex. He is the author of Theories of Famine and has a long interest in food security and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
Simon Maxwell Simon Maxwell was Director of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London between 1997-2009. He previously worked overseas for ten years, in Kenya, India and Bolivia; and from 1981-1997 was a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, latterly as Programme Manager for Poverty, Food Security and the Environment.
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