History and Hunger in West Africa: Food Production and Entitlement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde

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Laura Bigman

History and Hunger in West Africa

Food Production and Entitlement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde

Laura Bigman

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English

Praeger Publishers Inc
21 June 1993

Social & cultural history; Famine; Development economics

Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets

As Africa entered the 1990s, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission on Africa declared the continent incapable of feeding at least one-fifth of its peoples. Africa is the only region in the world where per capita food production is actually declining. Even with imports, the average African gets only enough nourishment to meet 85 percent of the minimum daily calorie requirement. This book analyzes the contemporary food crisis in Africa from an historical perspective, using two West African case studies.

From the perspective of food production and entitlement, the volume traces the economic history of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde beginning with the slave trade, through the colonial and postcolonial periods to democratization and structural adjustment. Using the theory and methodology of political economy, the study argues that the way in which African societies have been integrated into the world market diverted resources from food production, exacerbated exploitation, thus affecting entitlement to the food produced. Conditions for national food dependency and the degradation of the environment ensued.

By: Laura Bigman
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: No. 159.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780313267468
ISBN 10: 0313267464
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 21 June 1993
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction The Food Question in Africa: An Historical Perspective The Peoples of Guinea-Bissau and the Slave Trade Era Guinea-Bissau: The Colonial Economy Peanuts, Plantations and the Senegalization of Guinea-Bissau Politics of Force and Forced Migration Cape Verde Islands: Colonialism, Commerce and Crop Failures Slavery and Tenancy The Party-States, Privatization and Food Guinea-Bissau: Rice. Trade, Aid and the New Ponteiros Cape Verde: Agarrian Reform, Public Works and Extraversion Maps Historical Islamic States of the Guinea-Bissau Region

LAURA BIGMAN is founder of the Africans in Washington Project and is currently a Research Associate in the African Studies Department at Howard University.

Reviews for History and Hunger in West Africa: Food Production and Entitlement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde

.,. this book was well written and researched, and it is definitely a good resource text for students and scholars of Lucophone history and political economy. -The International Journal of African Historical Studies