Digging Deeper: Inside Africa’s Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Dynamics: (13 African Dynamics)

This volume attempts to dig deeper into what is currently happening in Africa’s agricultural and rural sector and to convince policymakers and others that it is important to look at the current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with value chain improvements and agro-food cluster innovations. It is essential to go beyond a ‘development bureaucracy’ and a state-based approach to rural transformation, such as the one that often dominates policy debate in African government circles, organizations like the African Union and the UN, and donor agencies.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures, Maps, Photos and Tables List of Contributors 1 Introduction Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz, Dick Foeken and Wijnand Klaver Section 1 Mapping the Evidence 2 Mapping the Food Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa Lia van Wesenbeeck 3 Agricultural Pockets of Effectiveness in Africa A Comparative Inventory of Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda since 2000 Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz and André Leliveld 4 Food Production and Consumption in Relation to Food Insecurity and Undernutrition in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda Wijnand Klaver Section 2 Agricultural Production and Effectiveness 5 Dairy Clustering in Kenya Diederik de Boer and Jackson Langat 6 Biofuel Feedstock Production in Ethiopia Status, Challenges and Contributions Maru Shete Bekele and Marcel Rutten 7 Local Careers and Mixed Fortunes in Africa’s Globalizing Food Exports The Case of Nile Perch from Lake Victoria, Uganda Joost Beuving  Section 3 Drivers of Food Production 8 Pressures and Incentives Urban Growth and Food Production at Tamale’s Rural-Urban Interface Sebastiaan Soeters 9 The Dynamics of Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Diana Lee-Smith 10 From Suitcase Farmers to Telephone Farmers Agriculture and Diversified Livelihoods among Urban Professionals Melle Leenstra Section 4 Institutional Issues 11 National Agricultural Research Systems in Africa Olubunmi Abayomi Omotesho and Abraham Falola 12 Contributions of Small- and Large-Scale Farms and Foreign and Local Investments to Agricultural Growth The Nigerian Example Sheu-Usman Akanbi and Akinyinka Akinyoade 13 Loss and Damage from Droughts and Floods in Rural Africa Kees van der Geest and Koko Warner 14 Agriculture and Nutrition Linkages and Complementarities Inge D. Brouwer Appendix A Selected Statistics of Major World Regions and Selected Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa Appendix B Fifty Years of Agricultural and Food Dynamics in Africa – Statistical Data

About the Author :
Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ph.D. (2007), Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, is a Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden and he is the convenor of its Agro-Food Clusters in Africa collaborative research group. He has published some journal articles, and research reports on Food Security in Africa including Agricultural Dynamics and Food Security Trends in Africa Wijnand Klaver, MSc, (1976, Wageningen University) is a Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He has published work on the indicators of undernutrition among preschool children and of national food availability for several countries in Africa. Sebastiaan Soeters, PhD (2012), is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Utrecht. His current research focuses on the social effects of climate change amongst rural communities in northern Ghana, Burkina Faso and Kenya. His earlier research focussed on urbanisation and food security in Africa. Dick Foeken, Ph.D. (1991), University of Amsterdam, is senior researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He published numerous books and articles on livelihood issues, mainly in Kenya.