Food and Human Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

This paper seeks to approach the paradigm of human security from the perspectives of food security, which brings in the discussions of the new patterns of policies adopted in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It discusses about the emergence of a market-led food security, guided by market forces and incentives created by the G8 New Alliance project. The paper highlights the existing discourse on the need to scale-up agriculture in SSA where theories of development are interpreted differently to channel a transformation of a subsistence economy to a market oriented economy, but yet governed with a very corporatist leaning as part of the private sector development.