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Final Statement of FAO-ISRA Sub-Regional Seminar

Year of publication 1999

Author Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title Food Into Cities Collection

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Recent demographic, social, economic and institutional changes have aggravated the food supplies and distribution problems of African cities, all of which will be doubling their current population in less than twenty years. Very few initiatives have been taken to improve the performance of food supply and distribution systems (FSDS) to cities and minimise the cost at which good quality food products reach the urban consumers' tables. For this reason, FAO and the Senegalese Institute for Agricult ural Research (ISRA) organised in Dakar, Senegal, in April 1997, a sub-regional seminar

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