ABSTRACT
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only major geographical area which has experienced a decline in per capita food production. This chapter provides the discussion of sustainable solutions to the agricultural and food crisis in Africa. Value systems form the basis for different views of the cause of the crisis in the African food system of the best solution. The most revealing part of the international debate on hunger and poverty in Africa is the apportioning of the blame. Definitions of development in opposition to the establishment have in common a value system based on control of African development by Africans. The global dominance of industrial agriculture may affect African food systems in several ways. The chapter focuses on the direct effects of the promotion of industrial agriculture model for production in Africa itself. Agricultural development in Africa has been dominated by the idea that the technology of industrial agriculture could be transferred.
