• DOI:10.1186/2048-7010-1-2
Corpus ID: 13248687

Food security for Africa: an urgent global challenge

@article{Sasson2012FoodSF,
  title={Food security for Africa: an urgent global challenge},
  author={A. Sasson},
  journal={Agriculture & Food Security},
  year={2012},
  volume={1},
  pages={1-16}
}

• A. Sasson
• Published 2012
• Economics
• Agriculture & Food Security

In 2012, food insecurity is still a major global concern as 1 billion people are suffering from starvation, under-, and malnutrition, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has concluded that we are still far from reaching millennium development goal (MDG) number 1: to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. In sub-Saharan Africa, the number of people suffering from hunger is estimated at 239 million, and this figure could increase in the near future.There are… Expand

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