ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the three possible kinds of interventions that might assist food security and three kinds of political approach connected. To raise the wages of the poor in their mining, industrial or agricultural employment so that they have no need to grow their own food. The poor of rural Africa will migrate to their place of work, ending the current articulation of subsistence with wage employment. To persuade the poor to become successful commodity producers – farmers in the European sense. They run family farms integrated into the market economy and to boost the success of the subsistence economy by producing more use value with less labour input. In most approaches to this, a diverse, poly-cultural low input agriculture is being promoted. The effect of the understanding is a 'fatal strategy' where food provision is concerned.
