How Africa eats : trade, food security and climate risks / edited by David Luke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luke, David, London School of Economics, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--Africa.

Food security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 267 pages) : graphs (some colour)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : LSE Press, 2025.

Summary:

Why do images and reports of starving and malnourished Africans appear so often in the media? What are the actual dimensions of the problem? What has trade and climate got to do with it? In How Africa Eats: Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks, award-winning author David Luke and a team of researchers seek to answer these questions, to explain why Africa struggles with food security and what can be done about it. The intersection between trade, agriculture policies, and climate risks is fundamental to this enquiry.Using a data-led approach, this book examines in detail what Africa eats and where and how it is produced. It investigates how finance, investment, foreign aid, institutions, actors and capacities interact with policies in holding Africa back from becoming an agricultural powerhouse despite having 60 per cent of the world’s arable land area.The book evaluates how climate change exacerbates the continent’s challenges and scrutinises the sustainability of production systems in the face of environmental volatility. Experts in trade policy, international law and development unpack the barriers that currently limit the growth of intra-African food trade, including the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and model the expected impact of the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on agricultural trade.The extent of food deprivation in Africa is sobering. The United Nations estimates that a fifth of the African population is undernourished, and a quarter live with the day-to-day experience of severe food insecurity. How Africa Eats provides a vital, open access resource for academics, policymakers and trade experts seeking to address the continent’s food insecurity in the face of urgent threats from climate change, trade barriers and complex policy challenges.

Contents:

Introduction: towards a reassessment of food deprivation in Africa / David Luke

Africa’s trade, food security and climate risks / Jamie MacLeod

What Africa eats – the basic foods / Olawale Ogunkola & Vinaye Dey Ancharaz

Policy, resources, actors and capacities / Vinaye Dey Ancharaz

Intra-African food trade / David Luke et al.

Expected impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area on food security / Jamie MacLeod

Food security in the African Continental Free Trade Area legal framework / Colette Van der Ven

Africa’s bilateral food trade / Vinaye Dey Ancharaz

The World Trade Organization’s legal framework and Africa’s food security / Colette Van der Ven & David Luke

Conclusion: trade, food security and climate risks / David Luke

Notes:

This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Copyright is retained by the author(s).

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781911712367

9781911712374

9781911712350

OCLC:

1553137565

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access