This book focuses on recent food and financial crises as they have affected Africa, illustrating the problems using country case studies, that cover their origins, effects on agriculture and rural poverty, their underlying factors and making recommendations as to how such crises could best be addressed in the future.

Contributions by: Ernest Aryeetey, Keith Wiebe, Siwa Msangi, Robert Hockett, Vera Songwe, Keith O Fuglie, Nicole M Mason, Thomas S Jayne, Hettie C Schönfeldt, Kenneth R Simler, William Masters, Vusi Gumede