Author: Andrew Deng Mawiir
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783659442612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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The Horn of Africa (HoA) region encompasses of Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Kenya in Africa continent. It's one of the most food insecure regions in the world, characterised by frequent droughts and conflict in Africa. However, there are many examples of food insecurity with some of them having reached catastrophic dimensions in the region. The disadvantageous situations of women and children is particularly serious, as well as the situations among female teenagers who receive less food than their male counterparts in the same households in the region. Findings included that: political instability and civil strife; environmental degradation and climate change; poor economic policies; rapid population growth; poor food production mechanism; soaring food prices and global financial crisis; food quality and gender inequality. The study recommends policies and intervention that combating food insecurity issues to supporting food security in the region.

Author: Alekaw Sinshaw
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783659356339
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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The subject of food security or insecurity is a complex development issue in most third world countries.In a given locality, the pervasiveness of food insecurity could be a measure of local level of governance, natural disaster, conflict, war, power imbalance, highly skewed economic distribution among citizens, lack of and competition for natural resources, over population and/or other factors.Currently, over 800 million people or 13 per cent of the world's population are chronically undernourished in a world that can produce sufficient food for everyone and day in and day out, they wake up hungry and go to bed hungry.In Sub-Saharan Africa only, it is projected that by 2020, the number of food-insecure people will exceed 500 million, out of a total population of roughly 1 billion. Within this sub-continent, the Horn of Africa is one of the most volatile regions which might mainly be triggered by food insecurity. The driving forces of food insecurity in this area are not easy to analyse and at times could be enigmatic.Using the case of Djibouti & Somalia, this book explicates how a number of factors are involving in bringing down a country to a state of unparalleled food insecuri

Author: Lori Ann Thrupp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Food security and the environment concepts and cnnections; Main concepts; Critical linkages; Resources and stakeholders; Resource endowments and transboundary resources; Stakeholders and institutions involved in food security and environmental security; The conplexity of insecurity in the Greater Horn; Conditions and trends; Root causes of food insecurity and environmental insecurity; Opportunities for food security and environmental security; Strategic principles; Options and opportunities for regional action; Reflections on prioity-setting and regional opportunities; Background information on WRI-IUCN project on food security and the environment in the Greater Horn of Africa; List of papers prepared by WRI, IUCN-EARO and collaborators for the project on food security and the environment in the Greater Horn of Africa.

Author: Joseph Awange
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783030910037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book will benefit users in food security, agriculture, water management, and environmental sectors. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of Greater Horn of Africa (GHA)'s food insecurity and hydroclimate using the state-of-the-art Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its Follow-on (GRACE-FO)'s, centennial precipitation, hydrological models' and reanalysis' products. It is here opined that GHA is endowed with freshwater (surface and groundwater) being home to the world's second largest freshwater body (Lake Victoria) and the greatest continental water towers (Ethiopian Highlands) that if properly tapped in a sustainable way, will support its irrigated agriculture as well as pastoralism. First, however, the obsolete Nile treaties that hamper the use of Lake Victoria (White Nile) and Ethiopian Highland (Blue Nile) have to be unlocked. Moreover, GHA is bedevilled by poor governance and the ``donor-assistance" syndrome; and in 2020-2021 faced the so-called ``triple threats'' of desert locust infestation, climate variability/change impacts and COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, climate extremes influence its meagre waters leading to perennial food insecurity. Coupled with frequent regional and local conflicts, high population growth rate, low crop yield, invasion of migratory pests, contagious human and livestock diseases (such as HIV/AIDs, COVID-19 & Rift Valley fever) and poverty, life for more than 310 million of its inhabitants simply becomes unbearable. Alarming also is the fact that drought-like humanitarian crises are increasing in GHA despite recent progress in its monitoring and prediction efforts. Notwithstanding these efforts, there remain challenges stemming from uncertainty in its prediction, and the inflexibility and limited buffering capacity of the recurrent impacted systems. To achieve greater food security, therefore, in addition to boosting GHA's agricultural output, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs suggest that its "inhabitants must create more diverse and stable means of livelihood to insulate themselves and their households from external shocks". This is a task that they acknowledge will not be easy as the path ahead is "strewn with obstacles namely; natural hazards and armed conflicts". Understanding GHA's food insecurity and its hydroclimate as presented in this book is a good starting point towards managing the impacts of the natural hazards on the one hand while understanding the impacts associated with extreme climate on GHA's available water and assessing the potential of its surface and groundwater to support its irrigated agriculture and pastoralism would be the first step towards "coping with drought" on the other hand. The book represents a significant effort by Prof Awange in trying to offer a comprehensive overview of the hydroclimate in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). Prof Eric F. Wood, NAE (USA); FRSC (Canada); Foreign member, ATSE (Australia).

Author: Margaret A. Mohamed-Salih
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171063595
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Agro-ecosystems, by Eric C. Quaye

Author: Barakat Mahmoud
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 1789857333
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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This edited volume “Food Security in Africa” is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of food safety and availability, water issues, farming and nutrition. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the public health and food security research area. All chapters are complete in itself but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on Africa’s food security challenges, quality of water, small-scale farming as well as economic and social challenges that this continent is facing. Hopefully, this volume will open new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Includes statistics.

Author: Guy Blaise Nkamleu
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9781626185593
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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During the past decades, the performance of the agricultural sector in Africa and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been distressing. Rapid annual population growth has led to declining per-capita food production and consumption levels and incomes have not risen fast enough to permit market imports to offset the decline. More alarming, the prognosis for the immediate future is quite bleak. The recent food crisis has again drawn attention to the African tragedy and exposed the fragility of sub-Saharan agricultural and economic progress. Though some of the effects are no longer visible, the food crisis is still a sword of Damocles hanging over Africas head. Africa has experienced food crisis in the past and there is no reason to believe that there will be no more food crisis in the future, for its root causes have not been addressed: technological progress and productivity growth. This book explores the missing links in the technology transfer segment of the innovation-diffusion-utilisation complex. The text also critically reviews the current state of knowledge and research, examines the main drivers of technology adoption in African agriculture, and explores the causes of success and failure in technology dissemination.

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251305722
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.

Author: Inter-Agency Task Force on the UN Response to Long-Term Food Security, Agricultural Development, and Related Aspects in the Horn of Africa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food supply
Languages : en
Pages : 13

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