Food security among small-scale agricultural producers in Southern Africa /

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Author / Creator:Msangi, Josephine Phillip, author.
Imprint:Cham : Springer, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 173 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Subject:Food security -- Africa, Southern.
Sustainable agriculture -- Africa, Southern.
Life Sciences.
Agriculture.
Sustainable Development.
Economic Geography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
Food security.
Sustainable agriculture.
Africa, Southern.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11087442
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9783319094953
3319094955
3319094947
9783319094946
9783319094946
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 8, 2014).
Summary:The book focuses on food security highlighting the role of indigenous knowledge and scientific research in addressing the plight of poor small-scale agricultural producers. Rapidly growing global population and global policies and management governing sustainability, hunger, food security and poverty alleviation are discussed. Additionally, impacts of probable climate change, research on land productivity and performance of dependable food crops i.e. cassava and pearl millet are discussed. Analyzed in great detail are roles of small stock, urban/peri-urban agriculture and advantages of climate-smart agriculture and participatory research in enhancing food security of the small-scale agricultural producers in Southern Africa.
Other form:Printed edition: 9783319094946
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-09495-3
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Population, agriculture, poverty and food security: an overview
  • 2. Policies and legislations governing marketing and food trade: Southern Africa
  • 3. Urban, peri-urban agriculture and food security among small-scale agricultural producers: Southern Africa
  • 4. Indigenous plant resources and food security among small-scale agricultural producers: Southern Africa
  • 5. Role of small stock in safeguarding food security in dry lands: case in Namibia
  • 6. Improving productivity, food safety and nutritional levels of dependable food crops: Southern Africa
  • 7. Climate-smart agriculture: incorporating weather information into small-scale agricultural producers' system: South Africa.