Plant-Parasitic Nematodes and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

HIV/AIDS and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper aims to describe the ways in which the HIV/AIDS epidemic negatively influences food and livelihood security, how it impacts on the food and nutrition security of millions of households, the responses of these households and communities as well as the policy and programme implications. As far as possible, this paper uses examples from West Africa, but in their absence the author was f...

A New Generation of Physicians in Sub-Saharan Africa?; Comment on “Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians”

This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the implications of the emergence of non-physician clinicians (NPCs) on the health labour market for the education of medical doctors. We generally agree with those authors and we want to stress the importance of clarifying the terminology to describe these practitioners and of defining more formall...

Competitive or complementary? Industrial crops and food security in sub-Saharan Africa - - Research reports and studies

Bread and Freedom: Linking Democracy and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

This article looks at the effect of politics on food security in thirty-eight SubSaharan African nations since 1990. In so doing, it helps clarify the causal mechanisms through which democracy impacts hunger. In contrast to previous empirical research where democracy is often treated as one-dimensional, this study incorporates multiple measures of democracy and freedom. The cross-national stati...

Non-physician Clinicians – A Gain for Physicians’ Working in Sub-Saharan Africa; Comment on “Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians”

The changing demands on the health sectors in low- and middle-income countries especially sub-Saharan African countries continue to challenge efforts to address critical shortages of the health workforce. Addressing these challenges have led to the evolution of “non-physician clinicians” (NPCs), that assume some physician roles and thus mitigate the continuing shortage of doctors in these count...