Population Growth and Trends in Food Production and Consumption in the CWANA Region

Kamil H. Shideed, Farouk Shomo and Aden Aw-Hassan

Chapter 69 in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2010, vol. 4, pp 3531-3570 from Elsevier

Abstract: Many of the financial and social challenges that face Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) can be addressed through more efficient and sustainable use of arable land and water resources. In recent years improvements in land and water use have come from an agricultural sector that is moving from state to market control, but without greater changes the region will continue to be constrained by environmental degradation, institutional inefficiencies, and persistently high population growth rates. This chapter presents a trend analysis of major cropping groups for the period 1961-2002 and summarizes ways to address the key problems of food security, poverty reduction, and conservation of natural resources throughout the CWANA region. The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and its partners are presented as a regional knowledge portal through which many of these initiatives can occur.

Keywords: agricultural research priorities; integrated natural resource management; food security; policy intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 Q13 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-444-51874-3
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