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Environment and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Managing an Emerging Crisis - Selected Papers from ERTEP 2007, July 17-19 2007, Ghana, Africa (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Environment and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Managing an Emerging Crisis - Selected Papers from ERTEP 2007, July 17-19 2007, Ghana, Africa (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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This book is the second edited compilation of selected, refereed
papers submitted to ERTEP 2007. The book is organized into 10
chapters along four of the key themes that were discussed at the
conference: Environmental Health Management; Mining and
Environment; Environmental Monitoring and Policy Development; and
Susta- ability and Social Responsibility. It is hoped that the
contents of the book will p- vide an insight into some of the
environmental and health management challenges confronting the
developing world and the steps being taken to address them. The
?rst three chapters under the Environmental Health and Management
theme discusses issues related to food security and related
environmental distress in sub- Saharan Africa. Chapter 1 argues
that pervasive poverty and low agricultural p- ductivity are
important factors in understanding food insecurity in the region,
and broader global processes are examined. This chapter maintains
that while poverty undermines individual and household access to
suf?cient food through market p- chase, land inequalities,
corruption, structural adjustment programs, civil con?ict, HIV/AIDS
and the role of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agric-
ture are decisive. The authors argue that achieving food security
in sub-Saharan Africa requires policies and actions that are
integrated with efforts to reduce poverty, enhance livelihoods and
incomes and increase agricultural output, while also paying
attention to underlying structural factors that bear on agriculture
in the region.
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