Facing up to Africa's Food Crisis

Eicher, Carl K.

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“…"Access" may be either through own production, or through purchases and transfers. In the late 1970s, the combination of unprecedented rates of rural/urban migration and agricultural stagnation gave rise to serious concerns over maintaining the supply of food to politically volatile urban populations in Africa (World Bank 1981;Eicher 1982)-the concern with urban food security was expressed much more in terms of the availability of food than access to food.…”

Section: Urban Food Insecurity In Sub-saharan Africa: a Brief Reviewmentioning

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The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Maxwell¹

1999

World Development

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Section: Urban Food Insecurity In Sub-saharan Africa: a Brief Reviewmentioning

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The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Maxwell¹

1999

World Development

188

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“…The problem has become even more urgent in our times as populations of SSA are continually ravaged by hunger and poverty. A combination of factors account for the situation and include but not limited to population growth outpacing food production per capita which has been in decline; increased food importation (Delgado & Mellor, 1984;World Bank, 2012); high incidence of hunger and poverty making SSA to be described as the world's poorest with 46.4% of its population living on less than $1 a day (World Bank, 2005a, 2005bEicher, 1982); unpredictable and intractable drought (European Commission, 2016;Gilbert & Reynolds, 2008); absence of agricultural extension services; lack of access to credit facilities; lack of adequate, functioning infrastructure (UN, 2008, p. 1;Jouanjean, 2013, p. 3); corruption (Ake, 1996;Oyeshile, 2015); incessant intra-inter-ethnic conflicts (Morgan & Solarz, 1994;Richardson & Sen, 1996;Achodo, 2000;Arias & Ibanez, 2013;Kimenyi et al, 2014); and very importantly low level of improved technology adoption.…”

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Technology Adoption and Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A Nigerian Case Study

Nwachukwu¹

2017

JCRS

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This study examines the impact of technology adoption on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using Ukum rural community, Benue State, Nigeria, as case study site which significantly represents other Nigerian-SSA farming communities, the study tracks the impact of farmers' adoption or non-adoption of improved technology on food security vis-à-vis factors shaping their choices. It aims to make the case that adoption boosts productivity and improves food security among others. Fifty farmer-participants were randomly selected using participant observation, structured interviews, questionnaires and photographing for data collection. Applying descriptive statistics including frequencies, tables, charts and percentages, field data were analyzed. Study findings strongly suggest that the main factors significantly affecting adoption of technology include cultural values, institutionalized land tenures, cropland size, poverty, literacy level, technology complexity, agricultural extension services, age and sex. Results suggest significant correlation between literacy level, economic power and technology adoption:younger, more educated farmers with higher economic status tend to adopt new technologies; farmers with access to agricultural extension services and credit facilities were more inclined to adopting new technologies; women were found more disadvantaged in the male-centered, exclusionary land tenure practice. Consequently, the study recommends sustained public sector interventions aiming to reduce food insecurity in the region.

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“…This discrepancy can partly be explained by the fact that about one third of the arable land in these areas is left uncultivated. This phenomenon, elsewhere described as the Eicher paradox (Eicher, 1982), is in turn difficult to explain within the framework of either orthodox neo-classical or radical marxist economics. The explanation must rather be pursued on the grounds of comparative advantage in the house-hold sector versus the market sector.…”

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Structural Imbalances in South African Agriculture¹

Fényes

Vanzyl

Vink

1988

South African J Economics

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2) STRUCTURAL IMBALANCES IN AN ECONOMY can be defined as a non-Pareto allocation of resources between industries or groups of industries (McCarthy, 1988). With regard to agriculture, such imbalances may involve a less than optimal resource allocation between agriculture and the rest of the economy, and between subsectors of the agricultural economy, with resultant symptoms of inefficiency and inequality. In this paper it is argued that inefficiency and inequality are caused by a lack of fair or equitable access to resources and markets in agriculture. The nature of restrictions to access for certain subsectors of South African agriculture is then demonstrated briefly, and this is followed by a description of the extent of inefficiency and inequality in the sector. This latter aspect is described in terms of structural imbalances be-tween agriculture and the rest of the economy, between the commercial and subsistence sectors of agriculture, and within commercial and subsistence agriculture respectively. Consideration is given to land tenure and the ownership of assets, distribution of income, labour utilization and production performance.

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Facing up to Africa's Food Crisis

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The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Technology Adoption and Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A Nigerian Case Study

Structural Imbalances in South African Agriculture¹

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The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Technology Adoption and Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A Nigerian Case Study

Structural Imbalances in South African Agriculture1

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