Pathways to African Food Security: Challenges, Threats and Opportunities towards 2050 (1) (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)

Synopsis

This book examines Africa’s current food system and future challenges for food security over the next 25 years.Africa is on the rise and by 2050, the continent will be home to a quarter of the world’s population. The analysis presented in this book clearly shows that the African food system needs to transform at a much faster pace to ensure that the people it serves are food secure. This book begins with four contrasting case studies that focus on country-specific challenges in Egypt, Ethiopia, Senegal and Zimbabwe. This is followed by 15 thematic chapters organised in three sections on challenges, threats and opportunities. Individual chapters address a wide range of topics including climate change, water security, farm sizes, crop yields, conservation trade-offs, food prices, trade, conflict and structural change. The book concludes by discussing key pathways to improve Africa's food system and food security for the decades ahead.This book is essential reading for students, scholars and practitioners who work on global food security, sustainable food systems, food, health and nutrition and African development.

Copyright:

2025

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

310 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781040317518

Related ISBNs:

9781032649658, 9781032649696, 9781040317440, 9781032649672

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

01/31/25

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Michiel de Haas and Ken E. Giller

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Cooking, Food and Wine, Outdoors and Nature, Technology, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

null Michiel de Haas

Edited by:

null Ken E. Giller