Research Catalog

Title

Food security for southern Africa / edited by Mandivamba Rukuni and Carl K. Eicher.

Publication

Harare, Zimbabwe : UZ/MSU Food Security Project, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zimbabwe, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rukuni, Mandivamba.
• Eicher, Carl K.
• Conference on Food Security Research in Southern Africa (2nd : 1986 : Harare, Zimbabwe)

Description

xiv, 406 pages; 29 cm

Subject

• Food supply > Africa, Southern > Congresses
• Food supply > Zimbabwe > Congresses
• Agriculture > Economic aspects > Africa, Southern > Congresses
• Agriculture > Economic aspects > Zimbabwe > Congresses
• Agriculture and state > Africa, Southern > Congresses
• Agriculture and state > Zimbabwe > Congresses
• Agriculture and state
• Agriculture > Economic aspects
• Food supply
• Southern Africa
• Zimbabwe

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Selections of revised versions fo papers that were presented at the University of Zimbabwe's Second Annual Conference on Food Security Research in Southern Africa, Harare, November 9-13, 1986.
• "February 1987."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• Food security equation in Southern Africa / Mandivamba Rukuni (44 p.). -- A critical assessment of the FAO report on SADCC agriculture / Carl K Eicher (15 p.). -- SADCC's updated policy and strategy for food, agriculture and natural resources / Southern African Development Coordination Conference (4 p.). -- SADCC's updated food security strategy / K.J.M Dhliwayo (11 p.). -- Food aid, intra-regional trade and economic development in SADCC / Mudziviri Nziramasanga (37 p.). -- The elusive peasant : Zimbabwe agricultural policy, 1965-1986 / Malcolm J Blackie (31 p.). -- A preliminary assessment of factos underlying the growth of communal maize production in Zimbabwe / David D Rohrbach (40 p.).
• The economics of groundnut production by communal farmers in Zimbabwe / G Makombe (31 p.). -- Wheat policy options in Zimbabwe and SADCC countries : preliminary findings / Jim Longmire (29 p.). -- The role of the grain marketing board in serving communal farmers in Zimbabwe : a research proposal / M.T Muchero (15 p.). -- Agricultural policy reforms in Zambia / C Muntanga (8 p.). -- The oilseeds subsector and household food insecurity in communal farming areas of Zimbabwe : a preliminary research proposal / Godfrey Mudimu (19 p.). -- Sorghum and household food security in low rainfall areas of Zimbabwe : a research proposal / C.B Mbwanda (9 p.). -- Comments on the sorghum papers / Kay Muir-Leresche (3 p.). -- Research on sorghum and wheat flour composites / Manel I Gomez (10 p.). -- Sorghum and food security in Southern Africa : present and future research priorities of technical scientists / Leland R House (12 p.). -- Optimal grain pricing and storage policy in controlled agricultural economies : application to Zimbabwe / Steve Buccola (37 p.). -- Household grain storage and marketing in surplus and deficit communal farming areas in Zimbabwe : preliminary findings / J Stanning (47 p.).

LCCN

• 87980873
• ZBWT00291924

OCLC

• ocm15566048
• 15566048
• SCSB-1720836

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library