Terry Leahy

Food Security for Rural Africa

Feeding the Farmers First

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explains how projects can be designed that increase food security through subsistence production. Focusing on particular people and projects, it gives a sociological analysis of why this is so difficult to manage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780815354062
• ISBN-10: 0815354061
• Artikelnr.: 53690269

Autorenporträt

Terry Leahy is Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science at Newcastle University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Food Security as a Global and African Problem
* Vignette A: Low Input Technologies
Chapter Two: The UK Paradigm and an Alternative Strategy
* Vignette B: How Much Land Do You Need?
Chapter Three: Hunger as a Fatal Strategy - A Zambian Case Study
* Vignette C: Smoothing out the Bumps in Food Security
Chapter Four: Why Do Projects Fail? What Could Work?
* Vignette D: Working for Food - Working for Money
Chapter Five: Teaching them to Fish - Entrepreneurial Ideology and Rural
Projects
* Vignette E: What is a Farmer?
Chapter Six: Leading Farmer Projects and Rural Food Security, Uganda
* Vignette F: A Permaculture Design for a Ugandan Household
Chapter Seven: An Embedded Project - Chikukwa
* Vignette G: What to Eat to Avoid Diabetes and Heart Trouble
Chapter Eight: A Winning Formula - Projects that Work
* Vignette H: Composting Toilets in Africa
Chapter Nine: The Political Economy of Food Security Strategies