Digging Deeper ─ Inside Africa Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Dynamics

This book takes a closer look at the surprising increase in agricultural production in African countries since 2000, which appear to be keeping pace with population growth, and the translation to Africa how to feed the increasingly urbanized and growing populations in the coming decades.

Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ph.D. (2007), Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, is a Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden and he is the convenor of its Agro-Food Clusters in Africa collaborative research group. He has published some journal articles, and research reports on Food Security in Africa including Agricultural Dynamics and Food Security Trends in AfricaWijnand Klaver, MSc, (1976, Wageningen University) is a Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He has published work on the indicators of undernutrition among preschool children and of national food availability for several countries in Africa.Sebastiaan Soeters, PhD (2012), is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Utrecht. His current research focuses on the social effects of climate change amongst rural communities in northern Ghana, Burkina Faso and Kenya. His earlier research focussed on urbanisation and food security in Africa.Dick Foeken, Ph.D. (1991), University of Amsterdam, is senior researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He published numerous books and articles on livelihood issues, mainly in Kenya.