Hopes and Potentials -- Taking Stock -- Bounded Opportunities -- Viable Strategies -- Uneven Ecosystems -- Transitioning Identities -- Silicon Tensions -- Ways Forward -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: Case Study Notes and Market Data.

Food security as a global and African problem -- Low input technologies -- The UK paradigm and an alternative strategy -- How much land do you need? -- Hunger as a fatal strategy : a Zambian case study -- Smoothing out the bumps in food security -- Why do projects fail? What could work? --...

"This book examines the main factors behind observed poverty changes in eight countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mauritania, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. After reviewing the trends in income poverty and other, more direct measures of well-being (such as education, health, and...