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Title Settlement, market and food security
Published Paris : Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat, OECD, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (198 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Series West African studies, 2074-353X
West African studies (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Contents Foreword and acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations and acronyms; Editorial; Executive summary; Part IIntegrating Spatial Dynamics and Food Security Issues; Chapter 1 A review of past trends on settlement, agriculture and food insecurity; Chapter 2Economic geography and settlement dynamics; Part IIPeople, Places and Transformation Dynamics; Chapter 3 Spatial restructuring and economictransformations; Chapter 4Market dynamics and regional integration; Part IIIForward-looking Scenarios for Settlement and Agricultural Transformations to 2050; Chapter 5Population settlement projec
Chapter 6The future of agricultural systemsAnnexes; Glossary
Summary Settlement dynamics have been reshaping West Africa's social and economic geography. These spatial transformations - high urbanisation and economic concentration - favour the development of market-oriented agriculture. With the population of West Africa set to double by 2050, agricultural production systems will undergo far-reaching transformations. To support these transformations, policies need to be spatially targeted, improve availability of market information and broaden the field of food security to policy domains beyond agriculture. They need to rely on homogeneous and reliable data - n
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (OECD iLibrary, viewed May 30, 2013)
Subject Agriculture and state -- Africa, West.
Food security -- Africa, West.
SUBJECT Africa, Western -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001701
Africa, Western http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001688 -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005908
Form Electronic book
ISBN 926418743X (print)
9264187448 (pdf)
9789264187436 (print)
9789264187443 (pdf)