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| Title: | Modernising hunger: famine, food surplus & farm policy in the EEC & Africa |
| Author: | Raikes, Philip |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Pages: | 280 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | London |
| Publisher: | Catholic Institute for International Relations |
| ISBN: | 0852551118; 043508030X; 043508058X; 0852551126 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Europe |
| Subjects: | development cooperation food aid famine |
| Abstract: | The central theme of this book is that Europe's attempts to 'modernize' agriculture in Africa have increased rather than relieved rural poverty. Distribution and inappropriate development policies are greater problems than food deficits. Europe and the USA have offered technological solutions to problems which are overwhelmingly political and social. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 looks at the 'conventional wisdom' on the food and economic crisis in Africa and demonstrates that in several important respects it is either wrong or dangerously oversimplified. Chapter 3 starts with an outline and discussion of the more general African crisis, relating it to processes of class, State and policy formation. It then goes on to look at agricultural policies and a number of their specific effects. Chapter 4 is concerned with how hunger and food shortages emerge, and who suffers from them, when and under what circumstances. Chapter 5 examines the development of the world and African food systems, indicating some of the important factors which affect and are affected by EEC policy. Chapter 6 introduces EEC policy generally. Chapter 7 looks at agricultural protection and the Common Agricultural Policy. Chapter 8 looks at food aid and discusses the likelihood of 'disincentive effects' on local production and/or development of dependence on external sources of supply. Chapter 9 focuses on project aid and discusses aid to Africa under the Lomé Conventions. Chapter 10 draws the material together and shows the interrelationships. |
