The food and financial crises in Sub-Saharan Africa
Subtitle: origins, impacts and policy implications
By: David R. Lee, Muna Ndulo
Contributors: Ndulo, Muna
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845938284
Subjects: Food prices; Financial crises; Food supply
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Africa's dual crises: the food and financial crises and their effects in Sub-Saharan Africa: introduction and overview / David R. Lee, Julia Berazneva, and Muna Ndulo; title: The global food and financial crises and the poor in Africa / Ernest Aryeetey and Nelipher Moyo; title: Food prices and economic crises: causes and consequences for food security in developing countries / Keith Wiebe, David Dawe and Kostas Stamoulis; title: Future challenges for the world food economy and Sub-Saharan Africa: major environmental and socioeconomic drivers of change / Siwa Msangi and Mark Rosegrant; title: Here we go again: the abiding structure of financial crisis and what to do about it / Robert Hockett; title: The food and financial crises and complex derivatives: a tale of high stakes innovation and diversification / Vera Songwe; title: Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa / Keith O. Fuglie; title: 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 / Nicole M. Mason ... [et al.]; title: The short-term impact of the 2008 food price shock on poverty in Uganda / Kenneth R. Simler; title: The likely impact of food price increases on nutritionally vulnerable households in South Africa / Hettie C. Schönfeldt, Nicolette Gibson and Hester Vermeulen; title: Africa's turnaround: from crisis to opportunity in African agriculture / William A. Masters; title: The role of public policies and policy makers in Africa: responding to global economic crises / Vusi Gumede; title: Lessons of the food and financial crises: renewing Sub-Saharan Africa's commitment to food security and economic growth / David R. Lee ... [et al.].