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Achieving Food Security in Africa: Challenges and Issues. Food security. a situation in which all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active healthy li fe. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Achieving Food Security in Africa: Challenges and Issues
Food security
a situation in which all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active healthy life
Factors affecting food security• unstable social and
political environments that preclude sustainable economic growth
• war and civil strife• macroeconomic
imbalances in trade• natural resource
constraints
• poor human resource base• gender inequality• inadequate education• poor health• natural disasters, such as
floods and locust infestation
• absence of good governance
Root cause of food insecurity:poverty
70%+ live in the rural areas
Food security has three aspects
• food availability
• food access
• food adequacy
Underdeveloped Agricultural Sector
• over-reliance on primary agriculture
• low fertility soils
• minimal use of external farm inputs
• environmental degradation
• significant food crop loss
• minimal value addition and product differentiation
• inadequate food storage
Barriers to Market Access
• poor infrastructure
• limited resource base,
• lack of information
• lack of or inadequate support institutions
• poor policies factors
Effects of Globalization
• dumping of heavily subsidized produce
• premature exposure of upcoming industries to genuine competition from producers in developing and developed countries
Disease and Infection
Handicapping policies
Food Security Interventions
• Nutritional interventions• Facilitating market access• Capacity building• Gender sensitive
development• Building on coping
strategies• Creating off- farm
opportunities• Good governance