- Title
- Best practice for rural food security projects in Southern Africa?
- Creator
- Leahy, Terry; Goforth, Monika
- Relation
- Development in Practice Vol. 24, Issue 8, p. 933-947
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2014.969196
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- It has been widely believed that commercialisation is the solution to food insecurity in rural Africa. Project designs have attempted to set up agricultural cooperatives and encourage entrepreneurial farmers. Yet the problems revealed in the 1950s are still widespread. In a counter-perspective, some have argued for the relevance of subsistence and low-input agriculture. This article examines three NGO projects in South and South-eastern Africa which prioritise food security through household subsistence, using low-input technologies, along with an encouragement to produce a surplus for cash. We look at what these projects share and why their strategies work.
- Subject
- aid effectiveness; civil society; environment (built and natural); food security; labour and livelihoods; Sub-Saharan Africa; NGO; poverty reduction
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1297148
- Identifier
- uon:19383
- Identifier
- ISSN:0961-4524
- Rights
- This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Development in Practice on 07/11/14, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2014.969196
- Language
- eng
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