This chapter discusses the meaning of climate change, capacity building, sustainable agricultural development and the implications for sustainable food production. Furthermore, the causes of climate change (both human (anthropogenic) and natural causes) are addressed, along with the impact of...

This chapter looks at the current food shortage situation in sub-Saharan Africa, its principal causes and effects, and the policy and technical remedies for more sustainable agricultural solutions. Sections in this chapter discuss: population growth, food production and carrying capacity;...

A major obstacle to securing investments in agriculture and food-based approaches for improving nutrition is providing proof of efficacy. Do food-based approaches lead to reductions in malnutrition? To answer this question we need to develop a credible evidence base that articulates the links in...

The US Agency for International Development's (USAID) Gender Informed Nutrition and Agriculture (GINA) Alliance, piloted in Uganda, Mozambique and Nigeria, has proven effective in reducing hunger and poverty. The programme employed a gender-focused, community-based approach to improving household...

Vitamin A deficiency is of public health significance in the developing world. Household food production of β-carotene-rich vegetables and fruits is a long-term strategy that can contribute to combating vitamin A deficiency. It is, however, important to grow food crops to meet the nutritional needs ...

This book chapter provides the available statistics on camel meat production in different parts of the world, including the camel slaughtering rate trends and the contribution of camel meat to meat production. The camel meat market in the Horn of Africa, Central and Western Africa, and Asia, are...

This chapter examines the long-term 'drivers' of change in world food systems, specifically, selected factors influencing the food supply and demand balance, current and future, in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is argued that the exposure of the SSA region to world commodity markets that became...

This book focuses on the 2007-2008 food price crisis and the ensuing financial and economic crisis (both globally and in sub-Saharan Africa), illustrating the problems using country case studies that cover their origins, effects on agriculture and rural poverty, and their underlying factors. The 13 ...

This chapter focuses on the effect of private food production standards on the welfare of farm workers in Kenya. The chapter is divided into several sections. The section, Conceptual Framework and Methodology, describes the application of the Sen?s functionings approach in the context of production ...

This chapter states that if an intervention directed towards promoting food security in a World Development Region (WDR) is to be successful, the region needs to be surveyed to determine in general terms its characteristics regarding its agro-ecological zones. This then could lead to an assessment...