While famines and other episodes of severe hunger receive significant press coverage and attract much public attention, chronic hunger and malnutrition are considerably more prevalent in Africa.
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"On average, a typical developing country in Africa is assisted by about 30 aid institutions in the implementation of development strategies, yet Africa is still far from achieving food and nutrition security.
"In Africa and elsewhere, safety nets were promoted in the 1980s as a response to the (presumably short-term) adverse effects of structural adjustment.
What can be done to increase the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa? This brief advocates a two-pronged approach.
"Advocates of reforms in land rights and land markets frequently posit two important hypotheses: (1) African countries must grant land titles to farmers because titles increase land tenure security and facilitate access to input, land, and fi
"The premise of a rights-based approach to ensuring adequate food is empowering poor people and those who are food insecure.
L’augmentation de la productivité agricole et de la sécurité alimentaire ne peut se concevoir sans l’aide de technologies nouvelles et améliorées ainsi que de leur large dissémination, processus qui empruntera la voie des institutions de recherche
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Strengthening Africa’s capacity to design and implement strategies for food and nutrition security
"Among the capacity-strengthening challenges the region faces are inadequate in-country capacity, institutional weaknesses, lack of multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving, expatriates’ limited incountry experience, poor governance, and fa
"Agricultural research capacity is an important factor in building food security and economic stability in Africa.
"The interactions between HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition insecurity are becoming clearer as research fills knowledge gaps.
In contrast to widely held uncertainties about Sub-Saharan Africa's ability to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), recent successes in African smallholder farming show that agriculture could play a key role in helping the region reach those
Wealthy countries’ agricultural subsidies have also created unfair competition.
In more than a dozen African countries the rate of undernourishment is more than 40 percent, exceeding 50 percent in those countries experiencing or emerging from armed conflict.
"Armed conflicts frequently lead to the destruction of food systems. Often, warring parties manipulate starvation as a deliberate tactic, using their control over access to food to attract and reward friends and humble and punish enemies.
"The current decline in per capita food production in Africa signals an urgent need to revitalize agricultural research.
"Africa faces a difficult challenge in meeting the main target of the first Millennium Development Goal — to halve the number of people suffering from malnutrition and hunger by 2015.
Contrairement aux prévisions communément admises quant à l’aggravation du déclin économique de l’Afrique, une récente étude présente une vision alternative plus positive de l’avenir de ce continent.
This policy brief is designed to help policymakers and practitioners understand the financial services needed by the poor.
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