The Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa: Origins, Impacts and Policy Implications

Only three years after the global food crisis of 2007-2008, in early 2011, the threat of a new 'food price crisis' revisited the world. Concerns were raised anew in the media, among international development institutions, in aid agencies and among developing country governments about th...

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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-370832023-11-11T05:04:33Z The Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa: Origins, Impacts and Policy Implications Lee, David R Ndulo, Muna Financial Implications Only three years after the global food crisis of 2007-2008, in early 2011, the threat of a new 'food price crisis' revisited the world. Concerns were raised anew in the media, among international development institutions, in aid agencies and among developing country governments about the magnitudes of current and predicted food price rises their causes and likely duration, their potential impacts on poverty and nutrition and about how the poor would cope. Debates were renewed about the efficacy of different mechanisms and policies to address both causes and outcomes. Meanwhile, poor and vulnerable populations around the developing world were left to grapple with the consequences of another round of substantial food price increases and their impacts on purchasing power, food consumption, and family nutrition. The earlier crisis, as it turned out, was only the first in a series of calamitous events in the late 2000s that included the most severe global financial crisis since the Great Depression and a global economic recession that, though severe, appears now to have fortunately been less devastating than initially expected. Nonetheless, the appearance of another food price crisis so soon after the last one leads to the question of whether, and to what extent, such events are due principally to transitory shocks or are the outcomes of structural economic forces. The implications of this question are significant. If the events of the late 2000s were transitory, then their effects, though harsh to many of the poor in sub- Saharan Africa and other developing countries, are less likely to repeat themselves than if they were the outcome of underlying structural market forces. As is discussed at length in this volume, the earlier food price crisis was in fact due to both. The emergence of a new food price crisis represents, in part, the outcome of some fundamental changes in the world food economy, including the growing linkages between food and energy markets. 2014-04-23T08:20:19Z 2014-04-23T08:20:19Z 2011 Book 978 1 84593 828 4 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/37083 en application/pdf CABI
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Lee, David R
Ndulo, Muna
The Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa: Origins, Impacts and Policy Implications
description Only three years after the global food crisis of 2007-2008, in early 2011, the threat of a new 'food price crisis' revisited the world. Concerns were raised anew in the media, among international development institutions, in aid agencies and among developing country governments about the magnitudes of current and predicted food price rises their causes and likely duration, their potential impacts on poverty and nutrition and about how the poor would cope. Debates were renewed about the efficacy of different mechanisms and policies to address both causes and outcomes. Meanwhile, poor and vulnerable populations around the developing world were left to grapple with the consequences of another round of substantial food price increases and their impacts on purchasing power, food consumption, and family nutrition. The earlier crisis, as it turned out, was only the first in a series of calamitous events in the late 2000s that included the most severe global financial crisis since the Great Depression and a global economic recession that, though severe, appears now to have fortunately been less devastating than initially expected. Nonetheless, the appearance of another food price crisis so soon after the last one leads to the question of whether, and to what extent, such events are due principally to transitory shocks or are the outcomes of structural economic forces. The implications of this question are significant. If the events of the late 2000s were transitory, then their effects, though harsh to many of the poor in sub- Saharan Africa and other developing countries, are less likely to repeat themselves than if they were the outcome of underlying structural market forces. As is discussed at length in this volume, the earlier food price crisis was in fact due to both. The emergence of a new food price crisis represents, in part, the outcome of some fundamental changes in the world food economy, including the growing linkages between food and energy markets.
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