Pathways to African Food Security - Challenges, Threats and Opportunities towards 2050

This book examines Africa?s current food system and future challenges for food security over the next twenty-five years.

Africa is on the rise and by 2050, the continent will be home to a quarter of the world?s population. The analysis presented in this book clearly shows that the African food system needs to transform at a much faster pace to ensure that the people it serves are food secure. The book begins with four contrasting case studies which focus on country-specific challenges in Egypt, Ethiopia, Senegal and Zimbabwe. This is followed by fifteen thematic chapters organised in three sections on challenges, threats and opportunities. Individual chapters address a wide range of topics including climate change, water security, farm sizes, crop yields, conservation trade-offs, food prices, trade, conflict and structural change. The book concludes by discussing key pathways to improve Africa''s food system and food security for the decades ahead.

This book is essential