1st Edition

Food Security for Rural Africa Feeding the Farmers First

By Terry Leahy Copyright 2019
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

At least fifty years of projects aimed at the rural poor in Africa have had very little impact. Up to half of the children of these countries are still suffering from stunting and malnutrition. Soil degradation and poor crop yields are ubiquitous. Projects are almost always aimed at helping local people to solve their problems by growing for the market. In some countries, projects link poor... Read more

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Food Security as a Global and African Problem

  • Vignette A: Low Input Technologies

Chapter Two: The UK Paradigm and an Alternative Strategy

  • Vignette B: How Much Land Do You Need?

Chapter Three: Hunger as a Fatal Strategy – A Zambian Case Study

  • Vignette C: Smoothing out the Bumps in Food Security

Chapter Four: Why Do Projects Fail? What Could Work?

  • Vignette D: Working for Food – Working for Money

Chapter Five: Teaching them to Fish – Entrepreneurial Ideology and Rural Projects

  • Vignette E: What is a Farmer?

Chapter Six: Leading Farmer Projects and Rural Food Security, Uganda

  • Vignette F: A Permaculture Design for a Ugandan Household

Chapter Seven: An Embedded Project – Chikukwa

  • Vignette G: What to Eat to Avoid Diabetes and Heart Trouble

Chapter Eight: A Winning Formula – Projects that Work

  • Vignette H: Composting Toilets in Africa

Chapter Nine: The Political Economy of Food Security Strategies





 

Biography

Terry Leahy is Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science at Newcastle University, Australia.