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| Title: | Food Shortages in Africa: A Critique of Existing Agricultural Strategies |
| Author: | Mengisteab, Kidane |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Periodical: | Africa Today |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Period: | 4th Quarter |
| Pages: | 39-53 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | food shortage Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4186323 |
| Abstract: | After a brief review of the liberal and neo-Marxist explanations of Africa's development problems, the author examines whether the predominant economic systems in Africa - the private enterprise and the state enterprise systems - are capable of overcoming the current agricultural crisis by alleviating the food sector's deprivation of needed resources. He argues that the market, by itself, is unable to coordinate resources with social needs and thereby bring about a solution to the food crisis; so interventionist policy should play an important role. When, on the other hand, policy supersedes or complements the market, it needs to represent social needs in order to achieve developmental objectives. Notes, ref. |
