Add to ORKGagriculture provides about 70 % of em-ployment, 40 % of exports, and one-third of GNP. Two-thirds of the region’s 615 mil-lion people live on small-scale, low-pro-ductivity farms. Often, the food a family can produce plus the food they can afford to purchase is insufficient. As a result, 194 million Africans, most of them children, are undernourished (1). These people lack “food security”; they do not have access at all times to enough food to lead active, healthy lives (2). Their num-bers will increase as food production per capita in most African countries continues a decade-long decline, reflecting rapid popula
Although over 70 per cent of the labour force is engaged in agriculture, Africa is loosing the capac...
Agriculture in Africa is expected to meet the dual objectives of providing food and helping people t...
Africa now needs 14 million tonnes more grain each year than it is producing. With the population gr...
Africa is the only region in the world where poverty and hunger are on the increase. About 49 percen...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that food insecurity exists when either physical,...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that food insecurity exists when either physical,...
Food security in Africa has substantially worsened since 1970. Although the proportion of malnourish...
Food security in Africa has substantially worsened since 1970. Although the proportion of malnourish...
Widespread poverty as well as food and income insecurity plague Africa’s dominant smallholder agricu...
Over the past two decades, of all the major regions of the Third World, sub-Saharan Africa has had t...
Over the past two decades, of all the major regions of the Third World, sub-Saharan Africa has had t...
...in more than a dozen African countries the rate of undernourishment is more than 40 percent, exce...
...in more than a dozen African countries the rate of undernourishment is more than 40 percent, exce...
By the year 2050, the world’s population will need 60% more food than it did in 2005. In sub-Saharan...
The World Food Summit in 1996 set the goal of reducing by half the numbers of malnourished people in...
Although over 70 per cent of the labour force is engaged in agriculture, Africa is loosing the capac...
Agriculture in Africa is expected to meet the dual objectives of providing food and helping people t...
Africa now needs 14 million tonnes more grain each year than it is producing. With the population gr...
Africa is the only region in the world where poverty and hunger are on the increase. About 49 percen...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that food insecurity exists when either physical,...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that food insecurity exists when either physical,...
Food security in Africa has substantially worsened since 1970. Although the proportion of malnourish...
Food security in Africa has substantially worsened since 1970. Although the proportion of malnourish...
Widespread poverty as well as food and income insecurity plague Africa’s dominant smallholder agricu...
Over the past two decades, of all the major regions of the Third World, sub-Saharan Africa has had t...
Over the past two decades, of all the major regions of the Third World, sub-Saharan Africa has had t...
...in more than a dozen African countries the rate of undernourishment is more than 40 percent, exce...
...in more than a dozen African countries the rate of undernourishment is more than 40 percent, exce...
By the year 2050, the world’s population will need 60% more food than it did in 2005. In sub-Saharan...
The World Food Summit in 1996 set the goal of reducing by half the numbers of malnourished people in...
Although over 70 per cent of the labour force is engaged in agriculture, Africa is loosing the capac...
Agriculture in Africa is expected to meet the dual objectives of providing food and helping people t...
Africa now needs 14 million tonnes more grain each year than it is producing. With the population gr...