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Government Policy, Food Security and Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Africa’s food insecurity and malnutrition problems, which appear to affect 25 per cent of the population, are a result of inappropriate development strategies and government policies, adverse and deteriorating terms of trade in international product and capital markets, and a skewed asset distribution.

Comments on earlier drafts of this paper by Jean-Pierre Habicht, Urban Jonsson, David Pelletier, David Sahn, and Peter Svedberg are gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Cornell Nutritional Surveillance Program, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen

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  1. Department of Economics, Cambridge University, UK

    Partha Dasgupta

  2. Department of Economics and Philosophy, Stanford University, California, USA

    Partha Dasgupta

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Pinstrup-Andersen, P. (1991). Government Policy, Food Security and Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Dasgupta, P. (eds) Issues in Contemporary Economics. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11579-2_6

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