New blog: Africa’s agricultural revolution after 1980

UNICEF recently started a campaign to cope with one of the worst emergency situations of the last forty years in Northeast Africa: food shortages as a result of climate change, conflicts, and the war in Ukraine. Almost forty years ago, an ASCL-edited book was published in which this scenario of ever-lasting food crises in Africa was predicted. But is the ongoing image of food insecurity in Africa correct, Ton Dietz and Jan Sterkenburg wonder?

Read their blog.