Food Imports of West Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3134151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W B Morgan (University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 351 |
| Publication date | 1963-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/142223 |
| OpenAlex | W2038236239 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Wo VEST AFRICA is mainly an exporter of food or of the raw materials used to prepare food; such as, palm oil and kernels, groundnuts, cocoa, and coffee. There is a tendency in some textbooks to assume that all or almost all of West Africa's food requirements are met by internal production, and that nutrition problems are mainly problems of improving local subsistence agriculture. Since the last war, however, there has been a marked increase in food imports into West Africa. The total may be small compared with the food imports of some European countries, but the cost in several instances is between a fifth and a quarter of the total expenditure on imported goods. In many of the rapidly growing towns there is a high degree of dependence on foods once consumed only by Europeans. The problems are to estimate how much of West Africa's food requirements is satisfied by imports, to assess the factors governing the import of food, and to examine the role of food imports in West African economies
Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Agriculture · Biology · Business · Economics · Food processing · Food security · Geography · Palm oil · Production (economics) · Quarter (Canadian coin) · Subsistence agriculture · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Food Science · Global trade and economics
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1969 - 2000 (32) |
| Highly cited | No |