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Title: | The Politics of Food and Starvation |
Author: | Bush, Ray |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 68 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 169-195 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Africa |
Subjects: | food policy famine Health and Nutrition Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Politics and Government Development and Technology |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249608704194 |
Abstract: | This paper reviews a range of material focusing on the persistence of hunger, famine and food insecurity in Africa. One of its purposes is to highlight the continuity and change in much of that literature since the mid-1970s. It argues that many of the recent insights into the ways in which food systems may become vulnerable to famine can be provided by an assessment of the political struggles involved in agricultural modernization. Attention is paid to some of the crucial themes which explain the increased presence of winners and losers in the struggles associated with food politics. These themes relate to the notion of agricultural modernization; the role of war and conflict, aid and the issues of struggle and contestation which shape people's access to food. This analysis also requires a sense of people's class position and their gender and age in assessing how they may become enmeshed in a crisis of food access, resource access and disposession. Bibliogr., sum. |