Poverty, hunger and democracy
Subtitle: the struggle of the African people against poverty and hunger and for true democracy
By: David Bigman.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780230205284
Subjects: Food supply -- Africa; Poor -- Africa; Hunger -- Africa; Democratization -- Africa
Description: "The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s. These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political problems that divided the continent"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction PART I: WHO IS IN CHARGE? THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND OF THE STATE PART II: OBSTACLES TO GROWTH: GEOGRAPHY, DEMOGRAPHY AND THE ENVIRONMENTIntroductionLandlocked countriesInland Obstacles: Access and Infrastructure The Threat of Global Warming The Demographic ChangesThe Resource Curse The Haunting Malthusian Predicamento Limits to growtho The environmental threato How to achieve sustained and fair limits to growtho The new phase of the Malthusian predicamento Will SSA be able to feed its growing population?o Malthus outlook further into the future PART III: POLITICAL REFORMS TO BUILD THE AFRICAN ECONOMY PART IV: WHY HAVE THE ADVANCED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES BYPASSED SSA?IntroductionThe reforms to increase agricultural productivityThe first great leap forward: the Green RevolutionThe second great leap forward: the Gene RevolutionThe driving force of agricultural productivity: Agricultural R&DPART V: THE FOOD CRISIS Introduction and OverviewThe causes of the escalating food pricesThe impact of the structural factors on the rise in food prices Is this sufficient to explain the excessive overshooting grain prices?Other factors that exacerbated the food crisis The consequences of the food crisis: The threat to Glocal stabilityPART VI: THE LONGER TERM REFORMS TO COMBAT HUNGER IN AFRICAIntroductionThe role of the public sectorThe main reformsProduction barriers to industrializationBarriers on agricultural reformsBarriers on diversifying agricultural incomesThe sagging rural economyThe common principles of the alternative reform programsThe new Partnership for Africas Development: The Reform Program of the African Union Introduction PART I: WHO IS IN CHARGE? THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND OF THE STATE PART II: OBSTACLES TO GROWTH: GEOGRAPHY, DEMOGRAPHY AND THE ENVIRONMENTIntroductionLandlocked countriesInland Obstacles: Access and Infrastructure The Threat of Global Warming The Demographic ChangesThe Resource Curse The Haunting Malthusian Predicamento Limits to growtho The environmental threato How to achieve sustained and fair limits to growtho The new phase of the Malthusian predicamento Will SSA be able to feed its growing population?o Malthus outlook further into the future PART III: POLITICAL REFORMS TO BUILD THE AFRICAN ECONOMY PART IV: WHY HAVE THE ADVANCED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES BYPASSED SSA?IntroductionThe reforms to increase agricultural productivityThe first great leap forward: the Green RevolutionThe second great leap forward: the Gene RevolutionThe driving force of agricultural productivity: Agricultural R&DPART V: THE FOOD CRISIS Introduction and OverviewThe causes of the escalating food pricesThe impact of the structural factors on the rise in food prices Is this sufficient to explain the excessive overshooting grain prices?Other factors that exacerbated the food crisis The consequences of the food crisis: The threat to Glocal stabilityPART VI: THE LONGER TERM REFORMS TO COMBAT HUNGER IN AFRICAIntroductionThe role of the public sectorThe main reformsProduction barriers to industrializationBarriers on agricultural reformsBarriers on diversifying agricultural incomesThe sagging rural economyThe common principles of the alternative reform programsThe new Partnership for Africas Development: The Reform Program of the African Union .