Paths to Attaining Food Security: The Case of Cameroon

Genesis T. Yengoh, Frederick Ato Armah and Edward Ebo Onumah
Additional contact information
Genesis T. Yengoh: Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, P.O. BOX 170, SE-221 00, Lund, Sweden
Frederick Ato Armah: Department of Environmental Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Edward Ebo Onumah: Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

Challenges, 2010, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: This paper sets out to develop a framework for characterizing agricultural growth orientations. We identify four main components in the global food system (technology, institutions, people, and natural resources). Based on the extent to which any two of these components are important in driving the growth of agriculture, we distinguish four main orientations of agricultural growth: local food, high resource-technology driven, guided technology driven, and right-to-food growth orientations. Given the social and environmental challenges that agricultural growth has to meet in Cameroon, we argue that the local food orientation and guided technology-driven orientation offer better opportunities for meeting the problem of food security in this country.

Keywords: agricultural growth; food security; Cameroon; agricultural development; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A00 C00 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/1/1/5/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/1/1/5/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jchals:v:1:y:2010:i:1:p:5-26:d:9152

Access Statistics for this article

Challenges is currently edited by Ms. Karen Sun

More articles in Challenges from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().