Providing Food Security for All
Providing Food Security for All

Author: Mohiuddin Alamgir

Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9781853391170

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This book is by Mohiuddin Alamgir and Poonam Arora with an introduction by Idriss Jazairy. This book from IFAD is an in-depth user-friendly study of global food security, focused at the household level, which includes dozens of revealing figures, charts and tables. This introduction to global food security issues provides an analysis of production and supply systems, factors contributing to domestic production growth and variability, the relationship between the macro-economic environment and food security, and options for the future. The authors illustrate how a micro-economic grassroots approach, rooted in the self-help capabilities of the poor, is not only feasible, but is in fact a productive means of enhancing food security. The text contains charts and tables and a food security index that ranks developing countries in terms of their vulnerability to hunger.

Food Aid and Human Security
Food Aid and Human Security

Author: Edward J. Clay

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0714650846

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Food aid is historically a major element of development aid to support longer-term development, and the primary response to help countries and peoples in crisis. This examination of food aid focuses in particular on institutional questions.

Farewell to Farms
Farewell to Farms

Author: Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0429809786

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First published in 1997, this volume asks whether Africa’s future is necessarily rooted in peasant agriculture. The title of this book, Farewell to Farms, is deliberately intended to challenge the widely held view that Africa is the world’s reserve for peasant farming. African rural populations are themselves moving away from a reliance on agriculture. ‘De-agrarianisation’ takes the form of urban migration as well as the expansion of non-agricultural activities in rural areas providing new income sources, occupations and social identities for rural dwellers. Using recent continent-wide case study evidence, the authors assess the impact of de-agrarianisation on household welfare, business performance and national development. Their findings, which reveal new economic trajectories and social patterns emerging from a period of accelerated change, call into question assumptions about Africa’s future place in the world division of labour.

Facets of Power
Facets of Power

Author: Saunders, Richard

Publisher: Weaver Press

Published: 2016-04-18

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1779222882

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The diamond fields of Chiadzwa, among the world's largest sources of rough diamonds have been at the centre of struggles for power in Zimbabwe since their discovery in 2006. Against the backdrop of a turbulent political economy, control of Chiadzwa's diamonds was hotly contested. By 2007 a new case of 'blood diamonds' had emerged, in which the country's security forces engaged with informal miners and black market dealers in the exploitation of rough diamonds, violently disrupting local communities and looting a key national resource. The formalisation of diamond mining in 2010 introduced new forms of large-scale theft, displacement and rights abuses. Facets of Power is the first comprehensive account of the emergence, meaning and profound impact of Chiadzwa's diamonds. Drawing on new fieldwork and published sources, the contributors present a graphic and accessibly written narrative of corruption and greed, as well as resistance by those who have suffered at the hands of the mineral's secretive and violent beneficiaries. If the lessons of resistance have been mostly disheartening ones, they also point towards more effective strategies for managing public resources, and mounting democratic challenges to elites whose power is sustained by preying on them.

Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty
Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty

Author: Marc Edelman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 1317424514

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This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground experiments, and policy innovations flying under its broad banner. Despite its large and growing popularity, the history, theoretical foundations, and political program of food sovereignty have only occasionally received in-depth analysis and critical scrutiny. This collection brings together both longstanding scholars in critical agrarian studies, such as Philip McMichael, Bina Agarwal, Henry Bernstein, Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, and Marc Edelman, as well as a dynamic roster of early- and mid-career researchers. The ultimate aim is to advance this important frontier of research and organizing, and put food sovereignty on stronger footing as a mobilizing frame, a policy objective, and a plan of action for the human future. This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Constraints and Prospects
Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Constraints and Prospects

Author: Colin Stoneman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1351725769

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This title was first published in 2000. Drs Tanya Bowyer-Bower and Colin Stoneman compile the views of top researchers, members of Government, civil society, NGOs, funders, and Zimbabwe’s three farmers’ unions. The history of land reform in Zimbabwe is addressed and the current proposed reform policies, comparison between programmes elsewhere in Southern Africa, and implications including for rural and urban welfare, the economy, the environment, the law, and for women. The result is an invaluable overview of this crucial and contentious issue, including constructive suggestions for consensual ways forward.

Prisoners of Rhodesia
Prisoners of Rhodesia

Author: M. Munochiveyi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-10

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1137482737

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During the Zimbabwean struggle for independence, the settler regime imprisoned numerous activists and others it suspected of being aligned with the guerrillas. This book is the first to look closely at the histories and lived experiences of these political detainees and prisoners, showing how they challenged and negotiated their incarceration.

Why Food Aid?
Why Food Aid?

Author: Vernon W. Ruttan

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9780801844720

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In Why Food Aid? Ruttan brings together important essays and commentary on food aid policy--focusing on the need, the problems, the options, and the future. Beginning with the now-classic debate between Willard W. Cochrane and Nobel laureate Theodore W. Schultz, the book includes work by such figures as ethicist Peter Singer, political commentator Emma Rothschild, and scholar Hans W. Singer. Also included is the congressional testimony of Raymond Hopkins on reforming food aid in the 1990's.

Hunger and Health
Hunger and Health

Author: World Food Programme

Publisher: Earthscan

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1844075516

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First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.