Food Systems in Africa

Gaelle Balineau, Arthur Bauer, Martin Kessler and Nicole Madariaga

No 34919 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: Food for cities in Africa is changing under the triple effect of growth demography, urbanization and transformations in agricultural production and trade. These changes create risks: African cities increasingly face the challenges of undernutrition and malnutrition. But they also generate new opportunities: the food economy is the continent’s main source of employment and will remain so in the near future, both to ensure agricultural production, agro-food processing and product distribution. At the center of this economy are the intermediaries market, which link producers and consumers, and whose ineffectiveness explains that about a third of the production evaporates in food losses.

Keywords: Agriculture-Agricultural; Sector; Economics; Agriculture-Agricultural; Trade; Agriculture-Food; Markets; Agriculture-Food; Security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4648-1588-1
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