Land Use, Environmental, and Food Consumption Patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000–2015: A Review

Jeffrey Chiwuikem Chiaka and Lin Zhen
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Jeffrey Chiwuikem Chiaka: Key Laboratory for Resources Use and Environmental Remediation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Lin Zhen: Key Laboratory for Resources Use and Environmental Remediation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-16

Abstract: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) land use changes are primarily influenced by agriculture and its population. The region faces various challenges ranging from rainfall variabilities to poverty and insecurities, which further hampered food supply and production. The spatial analysis identified six land uses—agriculture, forest, grassland, wetland, urban, and others (i.e., bare land, water, and sparse vegetation), showing relative percentage changes. Additionally, information collected and analyzed shows that the Millennium Development Goals period witnessed increased agricultural land use changes in the environment to improve food supply, and farmers adopted local methods and native experiences to mitigate environmental particularities facing the region. Farmers’ landholdings are fragmented, and food supply per capita is low albeit rich in calories, and nutrition is still unbalanced, while bushmeat consumption is popular and serves as an alternative to animal-sourced protein. Concerted efforts should be made to improve food security and edge closer to the sustainable development goal during this decade.

Keywords: food supply; population; land use and land cover changes; poverty; MDG/SDG; sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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