l'Afrique

Pays-Bas

Afrika-Studiecentrum

Leiden University

Meilink@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

phone: +31-71-5273370
fax: +31-71-5273344

http://asc.leidenuniv.nl

Kenya

main research interests are the social and economic
consequences of "structural adjustment programmes" (SAPs) and issues of food
security. He is currently working on a Ph.D. on the impact of SAPs on food
security at household level in Kenya. He is also interested in Africa's
changing position in international trade (Lomi, the Uruquay Rounds, WTO),
aid, international investment and the debt problem in Sub Saharan Africa.

Structural adjustment and food security at household level: a Kenya case
study

Regional Economic Integration in sub-Saharan Africa. In: A.E. Fernandez
Jilberto and A. Mommen (eds.) Regionalization and Globalization in the
Modern World Economy. London, Routledge, pp 128-146, 1998.

"Maize marketing in Kenya, 1976-1996." In: H.L. van der Laan et al. (eds.)
Agricultural marketing in Tropical Africa. Contributions from the
Netherlands, Aldershot: Ashgate, ASC Research Series vol. 15, 1999.

food security ; international trade ; aid ; debt ; international investment.