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Title: | Towards Regional Food Security in Southern Africa: A (New) Policy Framework for the Agricultural Sector |
Authors: | Van Rooyen, Johan Sigwele, Howard |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Food Policy |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 6 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 491-504 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | food policy agricultural policy Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade Urbanization and Migration |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-9192(98)00057-8 |
Abstract: | This paper demonstrates the importance of agricultural development for food security in the southern African region and develops a policy framework to strengthen this new, more comprehensive role of agriculture. The paper argues that the role of the agricultural sector in economic transformation and regional development is mainly determined by three features: the relationship between the agricultural sector and other sectors of the economy; the way agriculture is treated in the political process; and the chosen model for regionalism. After examining the trends in food supply and consumption in southern Africa the authors outline 'new' roles, strategic approaches and policies to enable the agricultural sector to contribute optimally to economic transformation, regional development and food security. They pay particular attention to the problem of the diverse patterns of economic transformation in the region. They conclude that the main goals for agricultural policies in the region should be to transform this sector to enable it to generate higher and sustainable farm incomes and increased rural per capita incomes and employment and so improve food security; and create the basis for the increased transfer of resources currently used in agriculture to other growing sectors of the economy on a regular and economically rational basis. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |