10. (Re)shaping Markets for Inclusive Economic Activity: Competition and Industrial Policies Relating to Food Production in Southern Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 295-322
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Industrial Policies

Eight Hens per Man per Day: Shipwreck Survivors and Pastoral Abundance in Southern Africa

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Hanzimanolis
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Terra Nullius ◽  
Pastoral Communities ◽  
Ownership Of Land

This essay examines South African shipwrecks and shipwreck survivor accounts in relation to land settlements and indigenous food production systems in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By analysing a collection of Portuguese shipwreck accounts it discovers that African land, often portrayed by colonising forces as Terra Nullius - empty land - in their efforts to rationalise usurping it, was actually populated by settled pastoral communities. Further analysis of the shipwreck accounts reveal the presence of racial typography and the attitudes toward indigenous southern Africans, which would become another rationalisation for usurping land in later colonisation efforts. It concludes that these accounts offer evidence disproving Terra Nullius assertions, whilst also providing an example of how the colonial mindset interpreted the ownership of land.

Viewpoint: Is the European attitude to GM products suffocating African development?

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Bodulovic
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Biotechnology ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Gm Crops ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
African Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
Food Shortages ◽  
Developed Nations

Currently, parts of Southern Africa are experiencing the third major drought in five years. The previous two droughts greatly affected food production, resulting in food shortages, which necessitated the provision of food aid to the region by developed nations. However, some of the food aid included genetically modified (GM) crops, the supply of which triggered hostile reactions by southern African governments, and in one case resulted in food aid being withheld from people on the verge of starvation. This article will examine the background and reasons behind the condemnation of GM crops by southern African nations, and will consider whether the lack of support of agricultural biotechnology by European nations has contributed to this situation. Furthermore, the necessity of agricultural biotechnology in future African development will be considered.

Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe

1985 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Weiner ◽  
Sam Moyo ◽  
Barry Munslow ◽  
Phil O'Keefe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Cash Crops

Given a continuation of current trends, with increasing population growth and declining food production, Southern Africa (excluding South Africa) which could nearly feed itself during 1979–81, will be only 64 per cent self-sufficient by the turn of the century. Zimbabwe has a particularly important rôle to play in trying to prevent such a disaster. It is by far the most important exporter of food and cash crops in the region, and has been allocated the task of co-ordinating a food-security strategy for the nine member-states of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference, namely Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Economic Aspects of Lesotho's Relations with South Africa

1988 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Cobbe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Total Income ◽  
Domestic Output ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic

Lesotho has long had the distinction of being one of the more anomalous states not only in Southern Africa, but in the world. It is entirely surrounded by another country, the Republic of South Africa. It is ethnically and linguistically very homogeneous. It is a monarchy. Physically, the lowest point in Lesotho is higher, in vertical distance above sea level, that that in any other country. Its economy is marked by some extraordinary paradoxes, such as agriculture being the main economic activity of the bulk of the labour force albeit the origin of a small fraction of total income, imports enomously exceeding exports and being larger than domestic output, and fewer citizens working for cash inside the country than outside.

CHILDREN UNDER SIEGE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. A88-A88
Author(s):  
Student
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Food Production ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Effects Of War

In southern Africa twenty-five children die every hour from the effects of war, not only from the brutality of war itself but also from malnutrition and disease resulting from breakdown of communications and health services and loss of food production. And the plight of children in the region is growing worse, according to a report prepared by experts for the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Contribution of China’s Industrial Policies to Agriculture Sector

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-148
Author(s):  
Nuhu A. Sansa
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Economic Openness ◽  
Economic Variables ◽  
Industrial Policies ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Simple Regression Model ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
The Relationship

Recent different literature argued that China‟s agriculture sector contribution to economic development is deteriorating. The agriculture sector contribution with regard to Agriculture GDP contribution, agriculture employment, and foreign exchange earnings were decreased. The present study is undertaken to investigate the contribution of industrial policies to the Agriculture sector of China during the period from 2007 to 2018. Simple regression model employed as a methodology to investigate the contribution of industrial policies to the agriculture sector in China during the period from 2007 to 2018. The data of all agriculture macro-economic variables applied in this study (Economic openness, Agriculture GDP, Agriculture Food Production, and Employment in Agriculture) were collected from the World Bank for the whole period from 2007 to 2018. In order to investigate the contribution of Industrial policies to the agriculture sector in China, industrial policies were represented by the economic openness which stands as independent variable, while agriculture GDP, Agriculture food production and employment in agriculture were dependent variables in the study. The information discovered in the study was in actual fact catching the attention. Information discovered as a result of the investigation shows that relationship between Economic openness and Agriculture GDP is Negative, While the relationship between economic openness and other Agriculture macro-economic variables (Agriculture Food Production and Agriculture Employment) is Positive and meaningfully during the period from 2009 to 2018 in China. That means Industrial policies had meaningful contribution to Agriculture Food production and Agriculture Employment, While Industrial policies had no contribution to Agriculture GDP during the period from 2009 to 2018 in China.

The Political Economy of Food Production and Nutrition in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective

1986 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Webster
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Political ◽  
High Rainfall ◽  
Chief Factors

The abundant health enjoyed by these people [the Xhosa] must undoubtedly be principally ascribed to the simple food on which they live: milk, the principal dish, which is supplied in abundance by numerous herds of cows; meat, mostly roasted; corn, millet and watermelons, prepared in different ways, appease hunger… —Ludwig Alberti (1807)1 The tuberculosis scourge is undoubtedly on the upgrade in the Native Territories and especially in this district with its high rainfall and congested population. Unsatisfactory conditions of living and nutrition are amongst the chief factors in spreading malnutrition… the former accounted, I'm afraid, for a considerable infant mortality and pellagralike conditions among the adults.

THE NEOLITHIC OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARIM SADR
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
African Archaeology ◽  
Late Stone Age

As the exception on the continent, southern Africa has no Neolithic period. In the 1920s, when the term came to mean Stone Age with food production, Neolithic was dropped in South Africa for lack of evidence for farming or herding in Stone Age sites. But since the late 1960s many sheep bones have surfaced in just such sites. Now, the continued absence of a Neolithic may say more about the politics of South African archaeology than about its prehistory. This paper describes food production in the southern African late Stone Age and argues in favor of (re-)introducing the term Neolithic to the subcontinent.

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