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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, David R. (David Robinson), 1950-
Corporate Author: C.A.B. International
Other Authors: Ndulo, Muna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass. : CABI, [2011]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Africa's dual crises : the food and financial crises and their effects in Sub-Saharan Africa : introduction and overview
  • The global food and financial crises and the poor in Africa
  • Food prices and economic crises : causes and consequences for food security in developing countries
  • Future challenges for the world food economy and Sub-Saharan Africa : major environmental and socioeconomic drivers of change
  • Here we go again : the abiding structure of financial crisis and what to do about it
  • The food and financial crises and complex derivatives : a tale of high stakes innovation and diversification
  • Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 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
  • The short-term impact of the 2008 food price shock on poverty in Uganda
  • The likely impact of food price increases on nutritionally vulnerable households in South Africa
  • Africa's turnaround : from crisis to opportunity in African agriculture
  • The role of public policies and policy makers in Africa : responding to global economic crises
  • Lessons of the food and financial crises : renewing Sub-Saharan Africa's commitment to food security and economic growth