The Determinants of Cereal Grain Imports: Sub-Saharan Africa, 1970-1997

Autor:	Vivienne Saverimuttu, Henry Rempel
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Sub saharan Annual percentage rate digestive oral and skin physiology Economics food and beverages Production (economics) Population growth Development Agricultural economics Cereal grain
Zdroj:	African Development Review. 16:525-548
ISSN:	1467-8268 1017-6772
DOI:	10.1111/j.1017-6772.2004.00103.x
Popis:	During the 1970s cereal imports in sub-Saharan Africa increased at an annual rate in excess of 20 percent. As a result, it was assumed Africa had two choices: reduce the rate of population growth or become increasingly dependent on food imports and aid. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of food shortfalls versus policy choices that resulted in a taste change away from roots and tubers and coarse grains to imported wheat and rice. Of the 41 countries studied, 17 are still net exporters of food commodities, cereal imports serve to supplement inadequate production of food, but these imports, generally, are not driven by severe nutritional needs within any one country. Rather, the observed cereal imports are primarily wheat and rice flowing into the countries with adequate levels of nutrition available.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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