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Food Policy

Volume 11, Issue 3, August 1986, Pages 190-192
Food Policy

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Food and environmental policies in Africa

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Abstract

The authors believe that the term ‘crisis’, in relation to the food and environmental situation in Africa, does not convey the persistent nature of Africa's problem. Not only is Africa experiencing severe food production and nutrition problems, but environmental conditions, on which agricultural production ultimately depends, are deteriorating. A meeting of the African Ministers of Environment was held in Cairo last December, and an African solution to an African problem was put forward. The proposed programme is looked at here.

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Margaret Biswas can be contacted at Balliol College, Oxford, UK. Asit Biswas is the President of the International Society for Ecological Modelling. He can be contacted at 76 Woodstock Close, Oxford, UK.

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