The Evolving Food Situation

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dc.creatorPaulino, Leonardo A.
dc.date1987
dc.date2024-11-21T09:53:04Z
dc.date2024-11-21T09:53:04Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:22:03Z
dc.descriptionOver the past two decades, of all the major regions of the Third World, sub-Saharan Africa has had the most rapid growth of population and the slowest growth of food output.' And its population growth rate has accelerated, while the food production growth rate has decelerated. For the Third World as a whole, production of major food crops outpaced population growth by more than a half percentage point per year over the past two decades, while in sub-Saharan Africa the food production growth rate was a full percentage point short of its population growth rate. Food production growth has depended more on growth in crop area and labor force and much less on yield increase and modern inputs compared to other parts of the world. Thus African agriculture is characterized by poor and deteriorating performance and little modernization.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/161028
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/102295
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourcePaulino, Leonardo A. 1987. The Evolving Food Situation. In Accelerating food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 2. Pp. 23-38. In Accelerating food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mellor, John W.; Delgado, Christopher L.; Blackie, Malcom J. (Eds.). Baltimore, MD: Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) [by] Johns Hopkins University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161028
dc.subjectfood production
dc.subjectconferences
dc.subjectagricultural policies
dc.titleThe Evolving Food Situation
dc.typeBook Chapter

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