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Ugwuanyi, J. U., and Chukwudi Obinne. "Promoting Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa." Outlook on Agriculture 27, no. 1 (1998): 47–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003072709802700109.

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Access to adequate food constitutes the most serious problem for most African households today. Low productivity rapid population growth, food aid and food importation, structural adjustment programmes, illiteracy, environmental degradation, poorly formulated and executed food policies, wars and political instability are among the factors held responsible for food insecurity and food inadequacy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The promotion of food security and improvement of living conditions of the African people should form the core of development programmes in Africa for years to come. Therefore, policy reversals are urgently needed to put Africa on the path of development, and a cooperative regionalism is advocated. Africans both at home and in the diaspora must collectively assume the responsibility for the advancement of African agriculture and economy.

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Tibaijuka, Anna Kajumulo. "Food security in Africa." New Economy 11, no. 3 (2004): 170–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0041.2004.00358.x.

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Amalu, Uche C. "Food Security: Sustainable Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa." Outlook on Agriculture 31, no. 3 (2002): 177–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000002101294029.

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Falling world grain stocks, rising grain prices and the poor economic situation of Africa have, since 1995, made food security a major issue. Structural adjustment programmes, the crushing burden of debt, the collapse of commodity prices and mismanagement of national economies have rendered African people even poorer in terms of per capita income and quality of life than they were in the first decade after the attainment of independence. Yet Africa is rich in many ways — for example, in virgin land for agriculture and in mineral resources, including energy. It is rich above all in its people and their determined spirit to face all disasters, natural and man-made. In line with this spirit, Africa is moving ahead on a new consensus that food security through enhanced agricultural production is the continent's most fundamental development issue. Although the economic plans of successive African governments have stressed the goal of food self-sufficiency, the food sector has received little investment or political priority. Africa continues to rely on food aid and food imports, which consume a large part of its meagre export earnings. The increasingly limited capacity to purchase food abroad and the bitter experience of depending on emergency aid are honing a clear determination that Africa must marshal the resources to grow its own food and so release the creative energies of its people to contribute fully to their own development and well-being. Top priority should be given to food security during this process, as no country can consider itself free until it has the wherewithal to provide for the basic needs of its people.

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Arah, Isaac Kojo, and Ernest Kodzo Kumah. "Organic Agriculture and Food Security: The Story of Africa." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN AGRICULTURE 5, no. 1 (2015): 591–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jaa.v5i1.4507.

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Global food security problem has raise concerns on the best agricultural practices that will stand the test of time to replace the already failing conventional agriculture. Yields are reportedly decreasing despite the increasing use of imputes. In the quest of solving this problem, researches have revealed that organic agriculture can get the needed results in a more sustainable manner. Activists of organic agriculture are therefore of the view that it is the best option for food sustainability especially in developing worlds like Africa. Critics also think organic agriculture is a sort of luxurious lifestyle being champion by some few rich consumers at the expense of the vulnerable majority. It is therefore unclear whether organic agriculture is the answer to Africas food crisis. It was shown by literature that organic agriculture is the best model of agriculture for Africa in tackling the food needs of the continent. The superiority of organic agriculture over conventional agriculture was seen in its high yielding crops, high nutrient food produced, less energy consumption and less greenhouse gas produced during production, high drought and flood resistant crops with an overall positive impact on the ecosystem. However, challenges such as lack of national organic agriculture policies, low/no research in organic agriculture, high cost of organic certification and imputes, high illiteracy rate, and under developed markets in most African countries hampers widespread adoption of organic agriculture in Africa. Until these challenges are addressed by governments of African countries, organic agriculture cannot be the answer to Africas food crises.

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van Zyl, Johan, and Johann Kirsten. "FOOD SECURITY IN SOUTH AFRICA." Agrekon 31, no. 4 (1992): 170–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03031853.1992.9524684.

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Molony, T., and J. Smith. "Biofuels, food security, and Africa." African Affairs 109, no. 436 (2010): 489–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adq019.

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Adeyeye, Samuel Ayofemi Olalekan. "The role of food processing and appropriate storage technologies in ensuring food security and food availability in Africa." Nutrition & Food Science 47, no. 1 (2017): 122–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/nfs-03-2016-0037.

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Purpose This paper aims to review scientific contributions that are essential to reduce the challenges to food security in Africa through food processing and appropriate storage technologies. Design/methodology/approach Several literature studies on the role of food processing and appropriate storage technologies in ensuring food security and food availability in Africa were critically reviewed. Findings The study revealed that the world faces multiple challenges to food security including under nutrition and overconsumption, rising food prices, population growth, rapid diet transitions, threats to agricultural production, inefficient production practices and supply chains and declining investment in food system research. Many people lack adequate amounts of foods that are rich in the nutrients needed for a healthy and productive life. According to FAO, 1996, chronic undernutrition affects 43 per cent of the Africa’s population or some 215 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. Food security is highly instrumental to the economic growth and sustainability of any country. The use of simple but effective on- and off-farm storage facilities and agro-processing technology should be promoted to add value to products and increase their shelf-life. The Strategic Grain Reserve Scheme should be modernized, strengthened and upgraded to a National Food Reserve Program, which will enable it to handle all staples and essential food products. This will help in attainment of national food security goal. It is also crucial to promote and develop agro-processing in the various African countries for the evolution of virile agro-allied industries and rural micro-enterprises. Research limitations/implications The paper reviewed the role of food processing and appropriate food storage technologies in ensuring food security and availability in Africa. There are insufficient data and information on adoption of new food processing and appropriate storage technologies in Africa. Although, there have been some instances where the introduction of modern techniques has resulted in products rejection by consumers. Practical implications The paper helps in reviewing food situation in Africa and how to make food available for the people and Africa food secured. Social implications This paper revealed strategies that could be used to improve food security and ensuring food availability in Africa. Originality/value This review paper is of value to policymakers, government agencies responsible for food quality control and assurance and consumers to make food available and affordable for the people.

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Bini, Valerio. "Food security and food sovereignty in West Africa." African Geographical Review 37, no. 1 (2016): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2016.1140586.

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CLOVER, JENNY. "FOOD SECURITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA." African Security Review 12, no. 1 (2003): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2003.9627566.

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Bonuedi, Isaac, Kofi Kamasa, and Eric Evans Osei Opoku. "Enabling trade across borders and food security in Africa." Food Security 12, no. 5 (2020): 1121–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01095-y.

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Abstract Widespread food insecurity remains a daunting challenge in Africa, despite significant gains in global efforts to eliminate hunger over the last three decades. This paper examines the effects of easing trade across borders – through reductions in documents, time, and costs to export and import – on food security outcomes in Africa. To control for endogeneity, this paper employs the first-difference instrumental variable estimator based on panel data covering 45 African countries over the period 2006–2015. The results reveal that poor trade facilitation constitutes a significant driver of food insecurity in Africa. In particular, ineffective trade facilitation is associated with significant increments in the prevalence of undernourishment and depth of food deficit, as well as reductions in dietary energy supply adequacy and access to sanitation facilities. The results show that food availability and food access are significantly hampered by higher documentation requirements and lengthier export and import times. The results suggest that reductions in delays from documentary and border compliance promise to be the most effective trade facilitation reforms to enhance food security in Africa.

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Matthew Makinde, Oluwadamilola, Osebhahiemen Odion Ikhimiukor, and Stephen Fapohunda. "Bioprocess engineering and genetically modified foods: tackling food insecurity in Africa." Brazilian Journal of Biological Sciences 4, no. 8 (2017): 233–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.21472/bjbs.040802.

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Bioprocess engineering today has made tremendous discoveries principally aimed at improving the overall quality of living of any society. Significant of these discoveries is the cultivation of genetically modified foods (GM foods). This paper discusses the problem of food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the practicability of GM foods in ameliorating this problem. In SSA, food security is currently being threatened by several factors ranging from natural systems that cause environmental deterioration such as floods and droughts to anthropogenic exacerbations ranging from poor land and agricultural management policies; increase in social and economic inequality; terrorism, civic unrest, strife and wars and rapid population growth and demographic changes, amongst others. Drawbacks to the poor food security in SSA is majorly associated with malnutrition and corresponding loss in human capita productivity in the region. Statistics currently portray that one in four persons in Africa is undernourished. Hence, the timely need for disruption in current trends is imperative. The growth of GM foods has seen an exponential increase worldwide, with over 179.7 million hectares being planted, this trend is however very poor in SSA. The pros, cons and hindrances influencing the use of GM foods in SSA have been discussed. It is the opinion of the authors that the use of Biotech improved foods in curbing the food crisis in SSA should be explored and committed to by the African Union, alongside amendment of policies that promulgate weaknesses of agricultural institutional in African Nations.

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Khalid Anser, Muhammad, Danish Iqbal Godil, Busayo Aderounmu, et al. "Social Inclusion, Innovation and Food Security in West Africa." Sustainability 13, no. 5 (2021): 2619. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13052619.

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To achieve the United Nations Sustainable Goals (SDGs) by 2030, especially goal 2 (SDG-2) which is to “end hunger, achieve sustainable food security, improved nutrition and promote agriculture” this study examines how innovation and social inclusion affect food security in West Africa. The study applies the system Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) on a panel data of 15 West African countries for the period 2005–2018. The result from system GMM shows that innovation and social inclusion are drivers of food security. The implication of this is that increased level of social inclusion and innovation in West African may increase the level of food security by about 41.5% and 13.6% respectively. Therefore, the study concludes that to feed the growing African population, social inclusion should be improved to mitigate risk, vulnerability and socioeconomic shocks faced by farming households. In addition, innovation in agricultural should be enhanced to drive productivity, thereby leading to a sustainable food security.

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Terblanche, Anél, and Gerrit Pienaar. "Raamwerkwetgewing ter Verwesenliking van die Reg op Toegang tot Voldoende Voedsel." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 15, no. 5 (2017): 228. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2012/v15i5a2524.

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Various South African government reports list food security as a development priority. Despite this prioritisation and despite the fact that South Africa is currently food self-sufficient, ongoing food shortages remain a daily reality for approximately 35 percent of the South African population. The government's commitment to food security to date of writing this contribution manifests in related policies, strategies, programmes and sectoral legislation with the focus on food production, distribution, safety and assistance. A paradigm shift in the international food security debate was encouraged during 2009, namely to base food security initiatives on the right to sufficient food. During a 2011 visit to South Africa, the Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food of the United Nations, accordingly confirmed that a human rights-based approach to food security is necessary in the South African legal and policy framework in order to address the huge disparities in terms of food security (especially concerning geography, gender and race). A human rights-based approach to food security will add dimensions of dignity, transparency, accountability, participation and empowerment to food security initiatives. The achievement of food security is further seen as the realisation of existing rights, notably the right of access to sufficient food. The right of access to sufficient food, as entrenched in section 27(1)(b) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 will accordingly play a central role within a human rights-based approach to food security. Section 27(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 qualifies section 27(1)(b) by requiring the state to take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of each of the section 27(1) rights. The South African government's commitment to food security, as already mentioned, currently manifests in related policies, strategies and programmes, which initiatives will qualify as other measures as referred to in section 27(2) mentioned above. This contribution, however, aims to elucidate the constitutional duty to take reasonable legislative measures as required by section 27(2) within the wider context of food security. This contribution is more specifically confined to the ways in which a human rights-based approach to food security can be accommodated in a proposed framework law as a national legislative measures. Several underlying and foundational themes are addressed in this contribution, amongst others: (a) the relationship between food security and the right of access to sufficient food; (b) food security as a developmental goal; and (c) the increasing trend to apply a human rights-based approach to development initiatives in general, but also to food security.

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Moyo, D. "The Future of Food: Elements of Integrated Food Security Strategy for South Africa and Food Security Status in Africa." Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 101 (2007): 103–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272503700025325.

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YU, Hongyuan. "The Energy-Water-Food Nexus and Its Implications for China–Africa Cooperation on Climate Change." Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies 02, no. 02 (2014): 1450013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2345748114500134.

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In the context of climate change, security is not only a relationship between countries, but also the interdependence between issues. In the African region, water, energy, and food form a security nexus with great sensitivity and vulnerability. Security nexus provides a new explanation for resources competition, cooperation, and conflict in the African region, and promotes water-food-energy research shift from the technical aspects to foreign policy level, and finally provides new international political ideas for resource and environmental solutions in Africa. In the perspective of security nexus, solving the ecological problems in Africa through international cooperation is not a simple technical issue, but an international political and economic issue. Based on the special political and economic advantages that China owns, jointly coping with the challenges of security nexus of China and Africa will provide an important opportunity to deepen their friendly and cooperative relations, broaden social basis of China–Africa relationship, and seek new growth points for economic cooperation.

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Igbedioh, S. O. "Sustaining Nutrition Security in Africa under Changing Socio-Economic." Nutrition and Health 10, no. 1 (1994): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026010609401000101.

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The adoption and implementation of the structural adjustment programme (SAP) in the 1980's by many African countries as a strategy for economic recovery has increased the magnitude of hunger and protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency and anaemia. In addition population growth rate has continued to outstrip the food supply at a time when real income value has fallen, thereby diminishing further the access of the poor to nutritious food. Even though Africa's present food supply situation is inadequate and in some cases unsustainable it is reassuring to note that Africa can feed itself provided the potential of doing so is mobilized and sustained. This paper proposes and highlights strategies for the development of a nutrition strategy and nutrition education programmes with emphasis on nutrition programmes which benefit the vulnerables. The paper further proposes that specific policies should be targeted at the poor while instituting food subsidies schemes for those who are most at risk nutritionally.

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Shilomboleni, Helena. "COVID-19 and food security in Africa: Building more resilient food systems." AAS Open Research 3 (June 26, 2020): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/aasopenres.13078.1.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of our food systems. Despite increased efficiencies in producing and supplying large volumes of food, our current food systems have generated multiple adverse outcomes comprising high greenhouse gas emissions, persistent hunger, and livelihood stress for farmers around the world. Nowhere else than in Africa have large numbers of people experienced more acutely these adverse shocks emanating from our food systems. Thus, building more resilient African food systems, which take a radical change of direction, is fundamentally a matter of survival. While there is broad consensus around a need for transformational change in food systems, what that entails is not always clear, and there are divergent views amongst experts on how to re-orient research priorities and agricultural solutions in ways that effectively address hunger and inequality while also protecting agrobiodiversity and the environment more broadly. This article engages with this debate and proposes an agricultural research for development agenda in Africa that balances technology transfer with realigning societal values, institutional arrangements, and policy decision-making towards the realization of greater sustainability and inclusive outcomes.

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Sneyd, Adam, Alexander Fomin Legwegoh, and Lauren Q. Sneyd. "Food politics: perspectives on food security in Central Africa." Journal of Contemporary African Studies 33, no. 1 (2015): 141–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2015.1021212.

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Akinola, Racheal, Laura Maureen Pereira, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Francia-Marié de Bruin, and Loubie Rusch. "A Review of Indigenous Food Crops in Africa and the Implications for more Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (2020): 3493. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083493.

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Indigenous and traditional foods crops (ITFCs) have multiple uses within society, and most notably have an important role to play in the attempt to diversify the food in order to enhance food and nutrition security. However, research suggests that the benefits and value of indigenous foods within the South African and the African context have not been fully understood and synthesized. Their potential value to the African food system could be enhanced if their benefits were explored more comprehensively. This synthesis presents a literature review relating to underutilized indigenous crop species and foods in Africa. It organizes the findings into four main contributions, nutritional, environmental, economic, and social-cultural, in line with key themes of a sustainable food system framework. It also goes on to unpack the benefits and challenges associated with ITFCs under these themes. A major obstacle is that people are not valuing indigenous foods and the potential benefit that can be derived from using them is thus neglected. Furthermore, knowledge is being lost from one generation to the next, with potentially dire implications for long-term sustainable food security. The results show the need to recognize and enable indigenous foods as a key resource in ensuring healthy food systems in the African continent.

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El Bilali, Hamid. "Research on food losses and waste in North Africa." North African Journal of Food and Nutrition Research 2, no. 3 (2018): 51–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.51745/najfnr.2.3.51-58.

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Background: Food losses and food waste represent an emerging problem with enormous economic, environmental, and social implications. Therefore, the reduction of food wastage is considered a promising strategy, not only to achieve food security but also to improve the food system sustainability. Food wastage is a serious issue also in North Africa region. Aims: This paper provides an overview on research dealing with food losses and waste (FLW) in North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia). Methods and Material: A systematic review was carried out in January 2018 using Scopus database. Issues addressed in the systematic review include geography of research on FLW in North Africa (i.e. countries considered or underserved), bibliometric parameters (e.g. journals, institutions) as well as thematic focus (agricultural loss, food waste). Selected records were also interrogated to see if they address the extent of FLW, the relation between food wastage and food security, economic implications of FLW, and environmental footprints of FLW. Results: The results show that research on FLW is still marginal in North Africa in general and in Libya and Mauritania in particular. Moreover, while there are some interesting pieces of research on the amount of FLW, environmental and economic impacts of FLW as well as their implications in terms of food security are largely overlooked. Conclusions: Therefore, North African researchers should pay more attention to food wastage issue. Such an endeavor should be supported by research policy in North Africa. Keywords: Agricultural losses, Environment, Food losses, Food security, Food wastage, Food waste, North Africa.

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Kewuyemi, Yusuf Olamide, Hema Kesa, Chiemela Enyinnaya Chinma, and Oluwafemi Ayodeji Adebo. "Fermented Edible Insects for Promoting Food Security in Africa." Insects 11, no. 5 (2020): 283. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11050283.

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Efforts to attain sustainable nutritional diets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are still below par. The continent is envisaged to face more impending food crises. This review presents an overview of common edible insects in Africa, their nutritional composition, health benefits and utilization in connection with fermentation to enrich the inherent composition of insect-based products and offer foods related to existing and generally preferred culinary practice. Attempts to explore fermentation treatments involving insects showed fermentation affected secondary metabolites to induce antimicrobial, nutritional and therapeutic properties. Available value-added fermented edible insect products like paste, powder, sauces, and insect containing fermented foods have been developed with potential for more. Novel fermented edible insect-based products could effectively fit in the continent’s food mix and therefore mitigate ongoing food insecurity, as well as to balance nutrition with health risk concerns limiting edible insects’ product acceptability in SSA.

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Popp, Jĳzsef, Judit Olġh, Anna Kiss, and Zoltġn Lakner. "Food Security Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Africa." www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro 21, no. 51 (2019): 361. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/ea/2019/51/361.

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Anya, M. I., N. I. Ofem, W. B. Binang, and E. P. Umoren. "Climate Change and Food Security in Africa." Asian Journal of Agricultural Research 6, no. 2 (2012): 52–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3923/ajar.2012.52.59.

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Duncan, Alex. "The food security challenge for southern Africa." Food Policy 23, no. 6 (1998): 459–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0306-9192(98)00055-4.

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Altman, M., T. GB Hart, and P. T. Jacobs. "Household food security status in South Africa." Agrekon 48, no. 4 (2009): 345–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03031853.2009.9523831.

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Rukuni, Mandivamba. "Africa: Addressing Growing Threats to Food Security." Journal of Nutrition 132, no. 11 (2002): 3443S—3448S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jn/132.11.3443s.

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Kiptot, Evelyne, Steven Franzel, and Ann Degrande. "Gender, agroforestry and food security in Africa." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 6 (February 2014): 104–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2013.10.019.

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Babu, Suresh Chandra, and Victoria J. Quinn. "Food security and nutrition monitoring in Africa." Food Policy 19, no. 3 (1994): 211–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(94)90071-x.

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Ali Mohamed, Esraa Mahadi, Samar Mohammed Alhaj Abdallah, Attaullah Ahmadi, and Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno. "Food Security and COVID-19 in Africa: Implications and Recommendations." American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 104, no. 5 (2021): 1613–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1590.

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ABSTRACTBefore the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged Africa, a large percentage of Africans were already affected by poverty and food insecurity. The pandemic wreaked havoc on their already unfavorable situation. The direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 included but not limited to illness and deaths of food systems’ workers, interruption of food supply chains, unemployment, depreciation of currency value, and disruption of social protection programs. COVID-19 will lead to further economic fallout. Thus, the situation needs careful observation and timely intervention to safeguard the vulnerable African communities. Although Africa has sought ways to lessen the dire impact of the pandemic on food security, short-term solutions should include and enhance social and economic relief initiatives such as monetary intervention and social safety net. Considering a balance between health benefits of COVID-19 restrictions and their economic implications, the African countries, at the regional level, must preserve open and efficient social protection programs and cross-border supply and distribution networks for agricultural inputs. Africa’s medium- and long-term strategies for improving food security should include improving and diversifying its agricultural productivity and production of key food commodities. This will reduce Africa’s dependence on importation of these key commodities, and will help the continent address underlying economic vulnerabilities and better manage food, pandemic, and/or health-related crises affecting food security in the long term.

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Anser, Muhammad Khalid, Romanus Osabohien, Olawale Olonade, et al. "Impact of ICT Adoption and Governance Interaction on Food Security in West Africa." Sustainability 13, no. 10 (2021): 5570. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13105570.

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The impact of the interaction of governance and information and communication technologies (ICT) adoption on food security in West Africa is investigated in this study. The study engaged the system generalised method of moments (GMM) approach on a panel data of 15 West African countries. The data used for the study are obtained from the world development indicators (WDI) and world governance indicators (WGI), for the period 2005 to 2018. The findings show that good governance (government effectiveness and efficient anti-corruption control) can boost food security by between 12% and 20%. Furthermore, the findings show that a 1% rise in ICT adoption may boost food security by 12% to 15%. In explaining the level of food security, the relationship between governance and ICT adoption is positive and significant. This implies that ICT and governance (government effectiveness) interaction may have about 15% positive influence on food security, while ICT and control of corruption interaction may positively influence the level of food security by 8%. The study concludes by recommending that to enhance food security in West Africa, effectiveness in governance and ICT adoption are crucial.

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Raheem, Dele, Moammar Dayoub, Rhoda Birech, and Alice Nakiyemba. "The Contribution of Cereal Grains to Food Security and Sustainability in Africa: Potential Application of UAV in Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Namibia." Urban Science 5, no. 1 (2021): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5010008.

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Africa is a net importer of food, especially cereal grains, despite the importance of agriculture in the continent. The agricultural growth in Africa has been undermined by low investment in agriculture, poor infrastructure, high population growth rate, and low adoption of technologies. The agri-food value chain in many African countries will benefit from the adoption of appropriate technologies that are available in the digital landscape to leverage the agricultural sector, make it more attractive to the teeming youth population, and to reverse rural-urban migration. Attention to indigenous cereal grains and other crops that are grown locally and processed into different local foods would ensure food security. However, the availability of these crops in the market is often reduced due to damage before harvest by pests and predators leading to economic losses for farmers. In this article, we review the literature from a multidisciplinary perspective on the relevance of African indigenous food grains to food security in general and we highlight the potential application of drones to increase the yield of cereal grains in three regions of the continent—eastern, western, and southern Africa.

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Jacobs, Peter T. "Agro-food market policy and food security in South Africa." Development in Practice 21, no. 4-5 (2011): 642–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2011.561284.

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Ackello-Ogutu, C. "Managing Food Security Implications of Food Price Shocks in Africa." Journal of African Economies 20, Supplement 1 (2011): i100—i141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejr010.

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Diriye, Mukhtar, Abdirizak Nur, and Abdullahi Khalif. "Food Aid and the Challenge of Food Security in Africa." Development 56, no. 3 (2013): 396–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/dev.2014.15.

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Khalif, Abdullahi, and Abdirizak Nur. "The African Farmer and the Challenge of Food Security in Africa." Development 56, no. 2 (2013): 257–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/dev.2013.25.

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Battersby, Jane. "The Food Desert as a Concept and Policy Tool in African Cities: An Opportunity and a Risk." Sustainability 11, no. 2 (2019): 458. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11020458.

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The idea that food insecurity can be resolved by increasing the presence of supermarkets has been gaining traction in African cities and has recently gained political traction in Africa. This paper interrogates the potential value and risks associated with the adoption of the discourse of the food desert in the African context. The paper draws on findings from a households survey, neighborhoods-scale food retail mapping and surveys, and city-wide supermarket mapping conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Kisumu (Kenya), and Kitwe (Zambia). Following a discussion of why the concept is gaining traction, the paper identifies false assumptions associated with the food desert framing in Africa, namely: supermarkets provide better access to healthier food, low-income areas have poor access to healthy food; and food security can be reduced to economic and physical accessibility. The paper concludes that although the food desert concept may be valuable for African researchers to provoke debates about systemic inequality, the food desert policy narrative should be rejected as it is ill-informed by the lived experiences of food insecurity in African cities and may promote policy interventions that erode rather than enhance the capacity of the food system to meet the food security needs of African urbanites.

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Kopteva, Lyudmila, Lyudmila Shabalina, and Artur Budagov. "Certain aspects of African countries food security provision." E3S Web of Conferences 210 (2020): 03009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202021003009.

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Analysis of the African countries food security demonstrate significant aggravation of the situation in several countries to the south of the Sahara. Conflicts, social inequality, high level of poverty against the background of a rapid population growth, unfavorable climatic conditions as well as ineffective government policy in the field of providing the population with foodstuff were determined as the main causes of population undernourishment. In Africa, due to low incomes of the population, most of the food ration consists of cereals and a small part of meat, fish and dairy products. It was revealed that African countries are the net importers of foodstuff, with cereals accounting for the largest part of imports. It was noted that international experts forecast foodstuff and fodder demand increase in these countries. It was defined the African region can potentially become one of the promising sales markets for Russian producers of grain crops and agricultural products. The results of the study are aimed at overcoming the problem of starvation, economic backwardness and improving the living standards of the African continent population, as well as developing an economic toolkit for the interaction of the Russian Federation with African countries.

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Ferrão, Jorge, Victoria Bell, Luis Alfaro Cardoso, and Tito Fernandes. "Agriculture and Food Security in Mozambique." Journal of Food, Nutrition and Agriculture 1, no. 1 (2018): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.21839/jfna.v1i1.121.

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The objective of this short review is to contribute to the debate on the role of agriculture transformation in the development process and as an engine to reduce poverty and improve general wellbeing through better access to nutrients in Mozambique. Agricultural services are organized by Provinces but still there is no accurate data on food production, consumption and trade trends in a large sample. It is recognized the complexity of the food security concept and the need of a multidimensional definition and approach. The increase in agricultural productivity can probably be seen as a necessary but not a sufficient condition to achieve long term food security in Mozambique or Sub-Saharan Africa. Competing views about the relevance of agriculture for growth and development imply different policy priorities in Africa.

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Ujunwa, Augustine, Chinwe Okoyeuzu, and Ebere Ume Kalu. "Armed Conflict and Food Security in West Africa: Socioeconomic Perspective." International Journal of Social Economics 46, no. 2 (2019): 182–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijse-11-2017-0538.

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Purpose West Africa represents a very good case of a sub-region currently plagued with the problem of food insecurity. Traditional theories have attributed the increasing food insecurity in the region to problems of poor governance, corruption and climate change. In view of the persistent and increasing nature of armed conflict in the sub-region, the purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of increasing armed conflict on food security in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member countries. Design/methodology/approach The study utilized the dynamic generalized method of moments (GMM) to investigate the effect of conflict intensity on food security in the 14 member states of the ECOWAS using annualized panel data from 2005 to 2015. Findings The findings reveal that armed conflict is a significant predictor of food security in West Africa. Research limitations/implications The findings of the study bring to fore, the urgent need to rethink global initiative for combating food insecurity. The effort must also identify the causes of armed conflicts and design sound strategies for de-escalating the armed conflicts. Resolving the escalating armed conflict entails developing a conflict resolution framework that is extremely sensitive to the causes of conflict in Africa and adopting localized ex ante institutional diagnostics that would help in understanding the nature of the conflicts. Originality/value Traditional theory perceives climate change, social injustices, property right, food insecurity, religious extremism and bad governance as the predictors of armed conflicts. In this study, the authors departed from the traditional theory by demonstrating that the nature and trend of armed conflict could also pose a serious threat to food security.

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T. Metula, Nolukhanyo, and Oluyinka O. Osunkunle. "Framing by South African Local Newspapers on Food Security, Community Participation, Empowerment and Mobilization: The Study of Eastern Cape Local Web Newspapers." Journal of African Films & Diaspora Studies 4, no. 2 (2021): 39–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2516-2713/2021/4n2a3.

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This paper evaluates how local newspapers frame food security to ensure participation, empowerment, and community mobilization for food securing purposes. The focus is on the web versions of local newspapers in Eastern Cape, South Africa. A qualitative content analysis was used to evaluate the selected local web-based newspapers' content on food security-related stories within July-December 2016. The sample was drawn from two selected local web newspapers: Herald Live and The Talk of the Town. The findings revealed that local newspapers‘ framing of increased agricultural production, local farming, land redistribution, and government‘s financial support help to empower and mobilize individuals and communities to participate in food security initiatives. This paper concludes that local newspapers can be veritable tools to enhance food security channels in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

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SAGAWA, Toru. "Food Security Policy and the Suddenly Changing Livelihood of Agro-Pastoralists in Southwestern Ethiopia." Journal of African Studies 2019, no. 95 (2019): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.11619/africa.2019.95_13.

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Oluwatayo, Isaac B., and Ayodeji O. Ojo. "Food Insecurity and the Rising Urbanisation in Africa: Can ICT Revolution Bridge the GAP?" Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies 10, no. 1(J) (2018): 217–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v10i1(j).2104.

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The task of reducing food insecurity in Africa is very challenging. This is because of the changing conditions such as adverse climate change impacts. This study examined food insecurity, urbanisation and ICT in Africa. The paper employed a combination of both secondary and historical information obtained from different sources (UNHCR, FAO, Mo Ibrahim Foundation etc). Analytical method used include descriptive statistics such as charts. Food security indices in Africa is alarming and disturbing. One in four people in Africa do not have access to food in adequate quantities and one in five African children are underweight. African agriculture is rendered unattractive by low productivity hence the exodus of labour from rural to urban areas. Africa is the most rapidly urbanising continent in the world with enabling factors comprising of infrastructure deficits in rural areas, dearth of employment opportunities and glamour of city life. However, Africaâ€™s urban centres are not immune to the challenges inducing rural-urban migration in the first place. In fact, youth unemployment in Africa is 6 times higher in urban areas than in rural areas. About 72percent of urban dwellers live in slums with the most of them having no access to basic amenities. These culminated in what is regarded in literature as â€˜urbanisation of povertyâ€™. Migrants are generally scapegoated as the causes of crimes, violence and even unemployment in urban areas. Therefore, they are subjected to sub-human living conditions. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is particularly critical to the achievement of food security in Africa. This is because of the huge gap between markets and farmers which it is capable of filling. The paper therefore recommends increased but monitored investments in infrastructure in Africa in order to make rural areas more attractive and discourage rural-urban migration. There is also the need to provide favourable micro and macro-environment for businesses to grow especially in rural Africa.

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Janzen, Arlene, and Coralie Bryant. "Poverty, Policy, and Food Security in Southern Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 27, no. 1 (1993): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485446.

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Oden, Bertil, and Coralie Bryant. "Poverty, Policy, and Food Security in Southern Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies 23, no. 2 (1990): 360. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219372.

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Staudt, Kathleen, Coralie Bryant, Donald Curtis, et al. "Poverty, Policy, and Food Security in Southern Africa." African Studies Review 34, no. 2 (1991): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524253.

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Nolutshungu, Sam C. "Poverty, policy, and food security in southern Africa." International Affairs 66, no. 2 (1990): 426–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2621455.

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Whitaker, Jennifer Seymour, and Coralie Bryant. "Poverty, Policy, and Food Security in Southern Africa." Foreign Affairs 67, no. 1 (1988): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20043763.

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Devi, Sharmila. "Fall armyworm threatens food security in southern Africa." Lancet 391, no. 10122 (2018): 727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30431-8.

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Rajaonarison, Haja Michel. "Food and Human Security in Sub-Saharan Africa." Procedia Environmental Sciences 20 (2014): 377–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2014.03.048.

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Haggblade, Steven. "Unscrambling Africa: Regional Requirements for Achieving Food Security." Development Policy Review 31, no. 2 (2013): 149–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12001.

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