Continent not able to feed citizens - Study
A report released at the 2011 Ibrahim Forum on November 14 in Tunis has placed most of the 54 African countries in the food insufficient bracket.
The report also predicts that those countries will be locked in the bracket for the foreseeable future unless farmers change food production practices.
The report, “African Agriculture: From Meeting Needs to Creating Wealth” by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, says the continent is facing food crisis largely attributed to climate change, insistence on unproductive traditional ways of farming, poor storage and lack of government support for farmers.
The increasing numbers of the hungry, especially in the Horn of Africa, the report says, is worrying considering that it is happening a few years to the deadline to one of the key Millennium Development Goals (MDG), eradication of poverty and hunger by 2015.
Currently, the East African region is enjoying a favourable supply of food as a result of good rains. The Famine Early Warnings System Network says the region will continue receiving good rains for the better part of the year. It however adds that if high prices of food persist, it will be an indication that food is still not available for all.
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