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David Luke - How Africa Eats, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

How Africa Eats

Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks

Av David Luke

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Why do images and reports of starving and malnourished Africans appear so often in the media? What are the actual dimensions of the problem? What has trade and climate got to do with it? In How Africa Eats: Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks, award-winning author David Luke and a team of researchers seek to answer these questions, to explain why Africa struggles with food security and what can be done about it. The intersection between trade, agriculture policies, and climate risks is fundamental to this enquiry.Using a data-led approach, this book examines in detail what Africa eats and where and how it is produced. It investigates how finance, investment, foreign aid, institutions, actors and capacities interact with policies in holding Africa back from becoming an agricultural powerhouse despite having 60 per cent of the world’s arable land area.The book evaluates how climate change exacerbates the continent’s challenges and scrutinises the sustainability of production systems in the face of environmental volatility. Experts in trade policy, international law and development unpack the barriers that currently limit the growth of intra-African food trade, including the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and model the expected impact of the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on agricultural trade.The extent of food deprivation in Africa is sobering. The United Nations estimates that a fifth of the African population is undernourished, and a quarter live with the day-to-day experience of severe food insecurity. How Africa Eats provides a vital, open access resource for academics, policymakers and trade experts seeking to address the continent’s food insecurity in the face of urgent threats from climate change, trade barriers and complex policy challenges.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-04-30
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 432 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 296
  • Förlag: LSE Press
  • ISBN: 9781911712343
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David Luke is professor in practice and strategic director at the London School of Economics’ Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, where he oversees a programme on African trade policy. He is a former director of the African Trade Policy Centre at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), where he led the technical work on the protocols that make up the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement. His research interests include boosting intra-African trade; the AfCFTA initiative; Africa’s multilateral and bilateral trade relationships; and how trade policy intersects with industrialisation, structural transformation, inclusion, gender, public health and climate change. He is a member of the Board of TradeMark Africa and of the Council of the Africa Trade Foundation.Vinaye Dey Ancharaz is an independent consultant on trade and development. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Mauritius and has worked at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva and the African Development Bank. He has consulted with several organisations, including the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Indian Ocean Commission. He holds a first-class BSc (Hons) in economics from the University of Mauritius, MSc and PhD degrees in international economics from Brandeis University (USA) and an MBA from Imperial College London. He is a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute in the UK.William Davis is an economist who has worked on international trade for over 15 years mainly focused on Africa, with the UK government, United Nations and various think tanks. An Oxford University graduate, he has over 30 publications in international trade. He is currently a visiting fellow at the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa.Jamie MacLeod is an economics affairs officer at the United Nations Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island States in New York and a former policy fellow at the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. His career spans more than a decade focusing on trade policies and negotiations, with a particular interest on the African continent, including at the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the International Trade Centre, the World Bank and the Ghana Ministry of Trade and Industry.Olawale Ogunkola is professor of economics at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He has published and consulted extensively on trade and regional integration in Africa. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, a visiting lecturer at the National University of Lesotho, a resource person at the World Trade Organization’s regional trade policy course and a visiting professor at LSE.Colette Van der Ven is an international trade lawyer specialising in sustainable development. As founding director of TULIP Consulting, Colette advises the public sector on legal and policy issues at the trade–environment–development nexus. She is also a visiting lecturer in international law at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Previously, Colette worked as an international trade lawyer at Sidley Austin’s international dispute settlement practice. She holds a juris doctor from Harvard Law School, and a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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