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In this paper available data from World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organisation sources are presented in a brief summary discussion of the food situation in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda

The food situation in sub-Saharan Africa is an issue of growing concern. It is the contention of this paper that the primary issue is not overall supplies of food, but access to existing stocks of food and access to the means of production to produce food

In less developed countries, the level of Ur wages tends to induce more people to seek employment in towns than can be employed at that wage level. The existence of these Ur unemployed persons causes a divergence between private & social costs of migration. The individual Ru resident migrates or remains on the basis of perceived private costs, rather than on that of total costs to the economy. On the basis of survey data from Nairobi, Kenya, & of a consideration of the determinants of private & social costs with different stocks of Ur unemployed persons, an attempt is made to quantify the major private & social costs of migration to determine whether they diverge significantly. In the survey, conducted by H. Rempel ('Rural-to-Urban Labour Migration: An Interim Report,' Nairobi: Instit for Development Studies, Staff Paper No. 39, Aug, 1968), a significantly higher level of social costs than of private costs is found. This suggests the need for policy options for limiting Ur unemployment due to Ur in-migration. Modified HA.

This paper is premised on the view that policy action with respect to agricultural development in Africa requires a realistic model of how rural peasants make decisions