Abstract
Sub-Saharan Africa consists of over 40 low-income tropical countries. Many of these countries are facing serious food, hunger, and nutrition problems. The food problem in sub-Saharan Africa is as serious today as it was in Asia in the 1960s, at least in the relative sense. Although the food crisis in subSaharan Africa is not irreversible, the potential long-term agricultural development strategy to solve this food problem is more difficult to formulate and more expensive to implement.
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Mudahar, M.S. (1986). Fertilizer problems and policies in sub-Saharan Africa. In: Mokwunye, A.U., Vlek, P.L.G. (eds) Management of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fertilizers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4398-8_1
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