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

Published Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations, map 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] 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 Analysis voedselzekerheid food security afrika africa afrika ten zuiden van de sahara africa south of sahara platteland rural areas crises voedselprijzen food prices armoede poverty landbouwcrises agricultural crises Food Security Voedselzekerheid Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Food supply -- Africa, Sub-Saharan Food prices -- Africa, Sub-Saharan Financial crises -- Africa, Sub-Saharan Agriculture. Economic crises. Economic depression. Economic impact. Economic situation. Food policy. Food prices. Food production. Foods. Poverty. Rural areas. World. Financial crises Food prices Food supply Sub-Saharan Africa Form Electronic book Author Ndulo, Muna. ISBN 9781845939144 184593914X 1283425866 9781283425865

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