The food and financial crises in Sub-Saharan Africa [ origins, impacts and policy implications

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 affeced Africa, illustrating the problems using coun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lee, David R. [ (David Robinson)] , 1950- (Author), Ndulo, Muna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : CABI , 2011
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Online Access:https://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/FullTextPDF/2011/20113384855.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Africa's dual crises : the food and financial crises and their effects in Sub-Saharan Africa - introduction and overview
  • 2. The global food and financial crises and the poor in Africa
  • 3. Food prices and economic crises : causes and consequence for food security in developing countries
  • 4. Future challenges for the world food economy and Sub-Saharan Africa : major environmental and socioeconomic drivers of change
  • 5. Here we go again : the abiding structure of financial crisis and what to do about it
  • 6. The food and financial crises and complex derivatives : a tale of high stakes innovation and diversification
  • 7. Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 8. 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
  • 9. The short-term impact of the 2008 food price shock on poverty in Uganda
  • 10. The likely impact of food price increases on nutritionally vulnerable households in South Africa
  • 11. Africa's turnaround : from crisis to opportunity in African agriculture
  • 12. The role of public policies and policy makers in Africa : responding to global economic crises
  • 13. Lessons of the food and financial crises : renewing Sub-Saharan Africa's commitment to food security and economic growth