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Politics and Food Insecurity in Africa

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  • Robert L. Paarlberg

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Food security circumstances are improving in every region of the world except in Africa, where they have been progressively worsening. One food security challenge for analysts in the twenty-first century may be to stop thinking globally and spend more time thinking about Africa, where the largest problems will lie. The discovery that Africa's weak policy performance in the food and farm sector may be in part an outgrowth of its greater ethnic diversity, compounded by political malfunctions that date from a colonial history of externally imposed state formation is an inconvenient one for the economist.

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  • Robert L. Paarlberg, 1999. "Politics and Food Insecurity in Africa," Review of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 21(2), pages 499-511.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:revage:v:21:y:1999:i:2:p:499-511.
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    1. Richard Mbunda, 2016. "The Developmental State and Food Sovereignty in Tanzania," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 5(2-3), pages 265-291, August.
    2. Zolfaghari, Mehdi & Jariani, Farzaneh, 2021. "Food Security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)," MPRA Paper 105078, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Asiedu, Edward & Sadekla, Sylvester S. & Bokpin, Godfred A., 2020. "Aid to Africa’s agriculture towards building physical capital: Empirical evidence and implications for post-COVID-19 food insecurity," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 20(C).
    4. Riva C. H. Denny & Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt & Arika Ligmann-Zielinska & Laura Schmitt Olabisi & Louie Rivers & Jing Du & Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, 2018. "Food security in Africa: a cross-scale, empirical investigation using structural equation modeling," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 38(1), pages 6-22, March.

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