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Can Africa Feed Its People?

In: Poverty, Hunger, and Democracy in Africa

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  • David Bigman

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For half a century food was abundant and food prices continuously declined while industrialization proliferated and the global economy grew at an unprecedented rate, though very unequally. Since the 1960s, the Green Revolution boosted food production, and by reaching the poor underdeveloped countries, it pulled millions of people out of poverty. Today, the “Gene Revolution” promises another miracle of expanding food supply by adjusting the conditions of food production to the changing agroclimatic conditions. As a result, during most of the twentieth century, the miraculous growth of the global economy and the increasing food supply put the threatening predictions of The Limits to Growth at the bottom of the public agenda.

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  • David Bigman, 2011. "Can Africa Feed Its People?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Poverty, Hunger, and Democracy in Africa, chapter 2, pages 65-99, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24848-9_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230248489_4
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