Abstract
Increasingly, there is global consensus that pulse crops can help address ongoing nutrition and food security challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. Evidence shows that scaling-up production and consumption of pulses grown in sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to make positive contributions to socioeconomic and environmental sustainability. By taking a systems approach to analyze policy documents and stakeholder reports on food and nutrition security, this article argues that policy asymmetries within multilevel governance frameworks challenge efforts to scale-up existing pulse value chains in this region, specifically Ethiopia. It demonstrates that policy sectoralization and siloing between the nutrition and agriculture agendas contribute to stalled policy implementation and create challenges to implementing nutrition-sensitive food security strategies. It concludes by suggesting several ways of combating these challenges through multilevel governance.
Recommended Citation
Clark, Lisa. 2017. "Implementing Multilevel Food and Nutrition Security Frameworks in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Scaling Up Pulses in Ethiopia (A Research Note)." Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 32(1): Article 5. Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jrss/vol32/iss1/5
Publication Date
6-30-2017
