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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.
"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.
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
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.
Wealthy countries’ agricultural subsidies have also created unfair competition.
"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.