The food and financial crises in Sub-Saharan Africa : origins, impacts and policy implications / David R. Lee, Muna Ndulo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, David R. (David Robinson), 1950- author.

Contributor:

C.A.B. International.

Ndulo, Muna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Food supply.

Financial crises.

Food prices.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Food prices--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Financial crises--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, [2011]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Dramatic increases in food prices, as witnessed on a global scale in recent years, threaten the food security of hundreds of millions of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. This book focuses on recent food and financial crises as they have affected Africa, illustrating the problems using country case studies, that cover their origins, effects on agriculture and rural poverty, their underlying factors and making recommendations as to how such crises could best be addressed in the future.

Contents:

Africa's dual crises: the food and financial crises and their effects in Sub-Saharan Africa: introduction and overview / David R. Lee, Julia Berazneva, and Muna Ndulo

The global food and financial crises and the poor in Africa / Ernest Aryeetey and Nelipher Moyo

Food prices and economic crises: causes and consequences for food security in developing countries / Keith Wiebe, David Dawe and Kostas Stamoulis

Future challenges for the world food economy and Sub-Saharan Africa: major environmental and socioeconomic drivers of change / Siwa Msangi and Mark Rosegrant

Here we go again: the abiding structure of financial crisis and what to do about it / Robert Hockett

The food and financial crises and complex derivatives: a tale of high stakes innovation and diversification / Vera Songwe

Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa / Keith O. Fuglie

Are staple foods becoming more expensive for urban consumers in Eastern and Southern Africa? Trends in food prices, marketing margins and wage rates in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia / Nicole M. Mason ... [and others]

The short-term impact of the 2008 food price shock on poverty in Uganda / Kenneth R. Simler

The likely impact of food price increases on nutritionally vulnerable households in South Africa / Hettie C. Schönfeldt, Nicolette Gibson and Hester Vermeulen

Africa's turnaround: from crisis to opportunity in African agriculture / William A. Masters

The role of public policies and policy makers in Africa: responding to global economic crises / Vusi Gumede

Lessons of the food and financial crises: renewing Sub-Saharan Africa's commitment to food security and economic growth / David R. Lee ... [and others].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lee, David R. (David Robinson), 1950- Food and financial crises in Sub-Saharan Africa.

ISBN:

9781845939144

184593914X

OCLC:

768246085

Access Restriction:

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