Food security in the Sahel: Variable import levy, grain reserves, and foreign exchange assistance

The confluence of droughts and high world grain prices in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the Sahel produced widespread famine, resulting in extensive and displacement of people. The region is extremely poor in normal times and the drought was simply a crisis superimposed on chronic misery. The ar...

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Main Author: McIntire, John
Format: Informe técnico
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 1981
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160798

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