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Title: | Regional co-operation as a means to food security in the SADC |
Authors: | Gyekye, A. Rempel, H. |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of Economics |
Volume: | 63 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 272-282 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | SADC food policy |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.1995.tb00238.x |
Abstract: | In 1986 U. Koester conducted a study of the potential for regional cooperation as a means to improve food security within the SADCC. His conclusion was that regional cooperation might have potential in southern Africa. One of the arguments was that regional integration could facilitate individual country access to regional supplies of white maize, the primary staple food. This paper builds on Koester's analysis. After a brief overview of the primary source of food within the SADC, the authors present the broad details of a regional store of the staple grains consumed by the lower income classes, viz. white maize, millet and sorghum. As a test of the applicability of the proposed plan, historical data for 1979 to 1986, a period of drought, are utilized as a case study of the proposed cooperative regional store in action. The primary source of data utilized in the paper is the agriculture data series, 1961 to 1992, compiled for each country by the Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA, 1992). The study confirms the conclusion reached by Koester. However, to exploit potential benefits the partner countries must be prepared to give up some autonomy in designing and implementing their domestic food policies. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |