Research Catalog

Title

Digging deeper : inside Africa's agricultural, food and nutrition dynamics / edited by Akinyinka Akinyoade, Wijnand Klaver, Sebastiaan Soeters, Dick Foeken.

Publication

Leiden : Brill, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Akinyoade, Akinyinka.

Description

xxviii, 352 pages : illustrations, color maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

African dynamics ; volume 13

Uniform Title

African dynamics ; 13.

Alternative Title

Inside Africa's agricultural, food and nutrition dynamics

Subjects

• Agriculture
• Agricultural productivity
• Food security
• Agriculture > Africa
• Africa
• Ernährungssicherung
• Food consumption > Africa
• Agrarproduktion
• Ländliche Entwicklung
• Agricultural productivity > Africa
• Verstädterung
• Food security > Africa
• Subsaharisches Afrika

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz, Dick Foeken and Wijnand Klaver -- Mapping the food economy in sub-Saharan Africa / Lia van Wesenbeeck -- Agricultural pockets of effectiveness in Africa: a comparative inventory of Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda since 2000 / Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz and André Leliveld -- Food production and consumption in relation to food insecurity and undernutrition in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda / Wijnand Klaver -- Dairy clustering in Kenya / Diederik de Boer and Jackson Langat -- Biofuel feedstock production in Ethiopia: status, challenges and contributions / Maru Shete and Marcel Rutten -- Local careers and mixed fortunes in Africa's globalizing food exports: the case of Nile perch from Lake Victoria, Uganda / Joost Beuving -- Pressures and incentives: urban growth and food production at tamale's rural-urban interface / Sebastiaan Soeters -- The dynamics of urban and peri-urban agriculture / Diana Lee-Smith -- From suitcase farmers to telephone farmers: agriculture and diversified livelihoods among urban professionals / Melle Leenstra -- National agricultural research systems in Africa / Olubunmi Abayomi Omotesho and Abraham Falola -- Contributions of small- and large-scale farms and foreign and local investments to agricultural growth: the Nigerian example / Sheu-Usman Akanbi and Akinyinka Akinyoade -- Loss and damage from droughts and floods in rural Africa / Kees van der Geest and Koko Warner -- Agriculture and nutrition: linkages and complementarities / Inge D. Brouwer -- Appendixes: A. Selected statistics of major world regions and selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa -- B. Fifty years of agricultural and food dynamics in Africa - statistical data.

ISBN

• 9789004282681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9004282688 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9789004282698 (e-book)
• 9004282696 (e-book)

LCCN

• 2014032453
• 99964051860

OCLC

• ocn889005859
• 889005859
• SCSB-5815923

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries