Food Remittances: Migration and Food Security in Africa (SAMP Migration Policy Series; Number 72) by Jonathan Crush and Mary Caesar - 2016

Southern African Migration Programme, 2016. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Studies of remittances, both international and domestic, invariably focus on the transfer of cash rather than goods. Here Crush and Caesar begin to rebalance the scales by examining cross-border food remitting in Africa. There is a massive informal trade in food, including staples, fresh, and processed products, they say, and though most informal cross-border trade in foodstuffs is by small-scale traders who buy in one country and sell in another, an unknown proportion is actually food remittances on their way from migrants to kin in their country of origin. One-third of households surveyed received goods, including foodstuffs, in remittance. Southern African Migration Programme is distributed in the US by the African Book Collective. (2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)