After two decades of economic decline and stagnation, Africa has witnessed a remarkable overall economic and agricultural recovery over the last decade.
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Recent dramatic increases in food prices are having severe consequences for poor countries and poor people.
World agriculture is at a turning point: economic growth, energy needs, and climate change redefine the equations of agricultural supply and demand and contribute to accelerate food prices.
The prices of maize, wheat, rice, and other crops have more than doubled over the past two years.
"At a recent multi-actor all-Africa conference, a majority of the 500 participants-60 percent-believed that food security can be achieved in Africa by 2020 but only a minority-40 percent-believed that it will be achieved.
Brief prepared for the Annual General Meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Nairobi, October 29, 2003
New tool for teachers, researchers, practitioners, and others working on global food security: 34 slides on IFPRI's action plan for ending hunger by 2020.
The Director-General of IFPRI emphasized, in his address, a most important fact: Poverty and hunger are now the world s most serious public health problems.
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