Sub-Saharan Africa's Vanishing Peasantries and the Specter of a Global Food Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9199221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D F Bryceson (0000-0002-2136-0078, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 48 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-061-03-2009-07_4 |
| OpenAlex | W1970497841 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 3 |
Likened to a sudden tsunami, reports of declining staple food availability and the possibility of a world food crisis first appeared in the international press in late 2007.1 Sub-Saharan Africa, with its deepening need for disaster food relief in arid and war-torn areas, was most vulnerable. The economic viability of western donors' food aid to the continent was increasingly being stretched. As food riots flared in various Asian and Latin American cities, urban food riots also began surfacing in Africa, alongside the perennial threat of rural famine.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Emergency management · Emergency relief · Famine · Food aid · Food insecurity · Food security · Geography · Humanitarian crisis · Latin Americans · Political science · South asia · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · Law
Whose Food Footprint? Capitalism, Agriculture and the Environment
Changing Policies, Shifting Livelihoods
Wage Employment in Africa
High-Yielding Variety Policies in Africa
The Trade Imperative
Technical Change and Agricultural Productivity
Uneven, Contradictory, and Brutal Economic Development in Africa
Varieties of Common Sense
Unbalanced Development
Investment, Wage Goods, and Industrial Policy
Working Out the Solution to Rural Poverty
Colonial Africa and the West
Prevalence and associated factors for rural households food insecurity in selected districts of east Gojjam zone, northern Ethiopia
Gender and generational patterns of African deagrarianization
Multiple crises and global health
An urban proletariat with peasant characteristics
Unearthing treasure and trouble
The Many Republics of Hunger
Neither sustainable nor inclusive
| Unique citing works | 19 |
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| Citations per year | 1.36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |