History and hunger in West Africa : food production and entitlement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde

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History and hunger in West Africa : food production and entitlement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde

Laura Bigman

(Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 159)

Greenwood Press, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144) and index

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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.

目次

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

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