Long-term challenges to food security and rural livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
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2012Author
Ackello-Ogutu, Chris
Okoruwa, Victor
Bahal, Girish Nath
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This briefing paper is one of the
10-part Global Development
Network (GDN) Agriculture Policy
Series for its project, ‘Supporting
Policy Research to Inform
Agricultural Policy in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia’. It is based
on a longer synthesis paper,
Long-term challenges to food
security and rural livelihoods in
Sub-Saharan Africa, which draws
on extensive published and
unpublished research.
It will be of value to policymakers,
experts and civil society working
to improve agriculture in
Sub-Saharan Africa. A total of 180 million food-insecure people live in Sub-Saharan
Africa, over 21 per cent of the African population. These are among
the world’s most vulnerable people, poorly equipped to respond
to the threat of climate change, demographic stresses, or spikes
in global food prices. This briefing examines how improvements
in agriculture might help to achieve g
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Briefing Paper Number 2 / 2012Sponsorhip
Global development NetworkPublisher
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya
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Briefing paper
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