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An analysis of sub-Saharan Africa's food production & consumption that uses a nutrition-system model provides a more complex & differentiated picture than generalized pronouncements of the continent's food insecurity based on international statistics. The model emphasizes household-level food security, taking into account household-specific factors in addition to global economic conditions/changes & national agrarian policies. The analysis draws on macrolevel economic data, microstudies of the nutrition risks/deficits & security strategies of rural households in several countries, & a detailed case study of Mali's food situation. It shows how individual coping strategies have interacted with post-1980 agricultural market liberalization to define the conditions of household food security. Coping strategies have included income diversification, agrarian innovation, migration, & consumption changes. Implications for agricultural policy & research are discussed. 2 Figures, 49 References. Adapted from the source document.

Outlines a future strategy for global, local, & personal food security, arguing that it must be integrative & take into account the dominant forms of accumulation & regulation. Amartya Sen's entitlement approach (eg, 1995), which centers on the ability of people to command food through legal means (eg, production, trade, & state provision) is proposed as a starting point. It is stressed, however, that just as the Fordist economic model determined postwar agricultural modernization (eg, the Green Revolution), future agricultural conditions will be defined by whatever accumulation/regulation forms are dominant. On this basis, it is argued that a political strategy for long-term food security should consider the potentials & limitations set by the current crisis in Fordism & emerging post-Fordist structures. It might include a better division of production & consumption, improved use of environmental & communications technologies, more public sector agricultural research, a form of local-level flexible specialization, an emphasis on social self-organization, & informal cooperation between localities. 1 Figure, 49 References. Adapted from the source document.