Food and nutrition security policies in Africa

For almost half a century, between 700 million and 1.2 billion of the world’s population experienced hunger and malnutrition each year (FAO et al. 2020). Worryingly, since 2014, the number of hungry people has been rising, with the latest estimate for 2019 showing that an additional 60 million people have become afected by hunger since 2014. This is incon-gruent with the fact that sufcient food is produced to feed the global population and that agricultural productivity continues to grow, albeit at less than the targeted rate of 1.73% per annum required if Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.3 is to be met (doubling agricul-tural productivity of small-scale farmers by 2030) (Steensland 2020).

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Published in: Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
See chapter on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003143840-49