“The Historical Origins, Evolution and Future Dimensions of
Africa’s Recurrent Food Crises”
World Food Systems & Policy
MET ML720:
Boston University, 2020
SOC B59
4 February 2020
Timothy C. Weiskel
DPhil, (Oxon), FRGS
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Presentation Slides & Follow-up Resource Material [forthcoming]
See related:
- ‘Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics’ | FAIR
- The Globalization of Food Production: The Atlantic Plantation System and the Origins of Africa’s Food Crisis
- Mapping Foodways in African and American History
- The Vulnerability of the Global Food System and the Strategies Needed for a Sustainable “Recovery”
- Some Troubling Chapters in The Political Ecology & History of West African Agriculture
- The “Green Revolution:” Its Essence, Achievements & Aftermath
- Part 1 – African Food Crises and the Unraveling of the Global Food System – The Tigray Catastrophe
- Part 2 – African Food Crises and the Unraveling of the Global Food System – Extractive Agribusiness