Poverty Alleviation and Food Security in Tanzania: An Environmental Perspective

S. M. Kapunda

Chapter Chapter 6 in Environment and Sustainable Development in Eastern and Southern Africa, 1998, pp 83-103 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The 1993 document1 on African strategies for the Implementation of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, UNCED, Agenda 21, underlines seven priority areas: (a) achievement of food self-sufficiency and food security; (b) managing demographic change and population pressures; (c) ensuring efficient and equitable use of water resources; (d) securing greater energy self-sufficiency; (e) optimizing environmentally clean industrial production; (f) management of species and ecosystems; and (g) preventing and reversing desertification.

Keywords: Food Security; Food Insecurity; Poverty Alleviation; Structural Adjustment Programme; United Republic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26643-2_6

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