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Title: | Food security and livelihood in rural Africa: basic conditions and current trends |
Editor: | Ikeno, Jun |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs: Supplementary Issue (ISSN 0286-9667) |
Issue: | 42 |
Pages: | 139 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Malawi Rwanda Senegal Tanzania Zambia |
Subjects: | food security livelihoods food production land tenure |
External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/2433/139279 |
Abstract: | This Supplementary Issue of African Study Monographs presents some of the results of a four-year research project on food security and livelihood in rural Africa. The simplest method for ensuring the availability of food would seem to involve increasing the production of crops, especially those that are considered staples. The papers by Tsutomu Takane (on Malawi), Shiro Kodamaya (on Zambia), Ryuta Takahashi (on Senegal) and Jun Ikeno (on Tanzania) address this approach to food security. Takane and Kodamaya focus on the responses of small-scale farmers to the changing national agricultural development policies on maize, a staple crop. Takahashi also addresses the production of rice as a staple crop, but his paper, as well as that by Ikeno on kidney beans as a non-staple crop, emphasizes local initiatives for agricultural development, which are not necessarily directly responsive to national development policies. Koichi Ikegami examines diversification in the livelihood base, discussing the emergence of pig production in Tanzania in the context of the decline in coffee prices. Access to land is crucial for rural livelihoods. Gen Ueda's article on Tanzania examines the changing land-use pattern in a mountain village, given long-term changes in socioeconomic conditions. The paper by Shinichi Takeuchi and Jean Marara on Rwanda during the post-civil war period illuminates the legitimacy of land rights through their research into village mediation mechanisms for land conflicts. [ASC Leiden abstract] |