Includes bibliographical references and index.

Africa's dual crises: the food and financial crises and their effects in Sub-Saharan Africa: introduction and overview / David R. Lee, Julia Berazneva, and Muna Ndulo -- The global food and financial crises and the poor in Africa / Ernest Aryeetey and Nelipher Moyo -- Food prices and economic crises: causes and consequences for food security in developing countries / Keith Wiebe, David Dawe and Kostas Stamoulis -- Future challenges for the world food economy and Sub-Saharan Africa: major environmental and socioeconomic drivers of change / Siwa Msangi and Mark Rosegrant -- Here we go again: the abiding structure of financial crisis and what to do about it / Robert Hockett -- The food and financial crises and complex derivatives: a tale of high stakes innovation and diversification / Vera Songwe -- Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa / Keith O. Fuglie -- Are staple foods becoming more expensive for urban consumers in Eastern and Southern Africa? Trends in food prices, marketing margins and wage rates in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia / Nicole M. Mason ... [et al.] -- The short-term impact of the 2008 food price shock on poverty in Uganda / Kenneth R. Simler -- The likely impact of food price increases on nutritionally vulnerable households in South Africa / Hettie C. Schönfeldt, Nicolette Gibson and Hester Vermeulen -- Africa's turnaround: from crisis to opportunity in African agriculture / William A. Masters -- The role of public policies and policy makers in Africa: responding to global economic crises / Vusi Gumede -- Lessons of the food and financial crises: renewing Sub-Saharan Africa's commitment to food security and economic growth / David R. Lee ... [et al.].