Rapid population growth, poorly planned urbanization, and evolving agricultural production and distribution practices are changing foodways in African cities and creating challenges: Africans are increasingly facing hunger, undernutrition, and malnutrition. Yet change also creates new opportunities. The food economy currently is the main source of jobs on the continent, promising more employment in the near future in farming, food processing, and food product distribution. These opportunities are undermined, however, by inefficient links among farmers, intermediaries, and consumers, leading to the loss of one-third of all food produced. This volume is an in-depth analysis of food system shortcomings in three West African cities: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Rabat, Morocco; and Niamey, Niger. Using the lens of geographical economics and sociology, the authors draw on quantitative and qualitative field surveys and case studies to offer insightful analyses of political institutions. They show the importance of “hard†? physical infrastructure, such as transport, storage, and wholesale and retail market facilities. They also describe the “soft†? infrastructure of institutions that facilitate trade, such as interpersonal trust, market information systems, and business climates. The authors find that the vague mandates and limited capacities of national trade and agriculture ministries, regional and urban authorities, neighborhood councils, and market cooperatives often hamper policy interventions. This volume comes to a simple conclusion: international development policy makers and their financial and technical partners have neglected urban markets for far too long, and now is the time to rethink and reinvest in this complex yet crucial subject.
In the winter of 1936, Tom Hall had been summoned to the small community of Montevideo, Minnesota to retrieve the body of his murdered brother Ernie. Before leaving that deadly winter behind, Tom had been instrumental in solving not only his brother's death, but three other violent murders--including the death of the local sheriff. Now, barely eighteen months later, Tom's investigative skills are again called upon by retired jurist John Chamberlin.A prominent but promiscuous woman has been found murdered and naked in a tourist cabin at the edge of town. There are no apparent clues as to the murderer, but Judge Chamberlin believes her death--and others--are connected to violence reaching back nearly one hundred years.Tom uncovers a legacy of hate and violence connecting several prominent pioneer immigrant families. While searching for clues to the killer's identity, Tom becomes romantically involved with vivacious Mary Collins, and as he tries to put together the pieces of the mysterious puzzle before him, both of their lives are threatened by a red-haired man who might be called a sociopath--or a psychopath. Or both.
How does it feel to be deemed guilty before trial? To be held in a cutthroat Panamanian prison while suffering from terminal lung cancer? How does it feel to rise to the top of the medical and public arenas in your adopted country, only to crash miserably to earth under allegations of fraud and money laundering? In short: What is it like to be Dr. Arthur Porter? There are few contemporary figures in Canada more intriguing and controversial than the former spy watchdog of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. A physician by trade, Porter, always in his iconic bow tie, has been described as intelligent, charismatic, and relentless in his ambitions. Others have called him deceitful, manipulative, and unscrupulous.
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