Food insecurity in Saharan Africa

Explains how: Prevalence and Implications for Agricultural Interventions are involved



Been hampered by limitations in the temporal and spatial representativeness of data.

In the lean period, when compared to other farm types, a smaller proportion of households in the “Specialized cropping” farm type sourced “legumes,” “fruit,” “vitamin A rich fruits and vegetables,” and “other vegetables”.

Specialized cropping households tended to have a higher prevalence of severe food insecurity—when compared with all other farm types.

Fail to represent food access, stability and their causal linkages.

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African continent aimed at helping people overcome food insecurity.

Food insecurity leads to hunger and malnutrition. Hunger is defined as not having enough to eat to meet energy needs. Hunger can lead to malnutrition, but absence of hunger does not imply absence of malnutrition.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the prevalence of undernourishment in sub-Saharan Africa declined from 33% to 23%.

Governments need to adopt an integrated approach to effectively reduce hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.

Governments also need to implement a mix of complementary and comprehensive food security and nutrition policies and programmes.

Explains how: Sub- Sahara Africa's crops are improving Food insecurity




Saharan Africa is known for its high range of food insecurity.


Faced adverse weather conditions and pest outbreaks in recent years, which is expected to slow the rate of improvement in food insecurity.


Poor quality or nutritional value of the food.


Slow economic growth and macroeconomic instability are expected to increase the number of food-insecure people in this area to 89 million by 2028.


By 2028, the share of food-insecure people in West Africa is expected to drop below 10 percent.