Food for All in Africa

Sir Gordon Conway is Professor of International Development at Imperial College London. He was previously Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department for International Development, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex. He is author of The Doubly Green Revolution and One Billion Hungry.Ousmane Badiane is recipient of the Africa Food Prize (2015), a Distinguished Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists, and Director for Africa at the International Food Policy Research Institute.Katrin Glatzel is Program Head of the Malabo Montpellier Panel program at the International Food Policy Research Institute's Africa Regional Office in Dakar, Senegal, and a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London.

• List of IllustrationsForeword by Akinwumi A. Adesina, African Development BankAcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroduction: A Book for Optimists1. African Farms and Farmers2. Hunger and Malnutrition3. The Threats to Food Security4. Resilient Farmers5. Sustainable Agriculture6. Agriculture and Ecology7. The New Genetics8. Value Chains9. Digital Farmers10. Transforming Agriculture11. Leadership and PerformanceNotesAuthor BiographiesIndex

On the whole, the book offers a wide-ranging, coherent, and insightful analysis of food security in Africa. Written by several experts in the area of sustainable agriculture, it is a very engaging and readable book that should be of particular interest to anyone with an interest in development studies, and its optimistic tone is very uplifting for the reader.(Progress in Development Studies)