By Getachew Diriba
This study is about chronic food insecurity, and offers a broader explanation within the current food price crisis, exposing the sharp decline in investment for the agricultural sector in Africa. Chronic food insecurity (chronic hunger) is ‘a long-term or persistent inability to meet minimum food consumption requirements’ (WFP 2006). The ECOSOC note (May 2008) is instructive: “the global food crisis threatens millions of the poor and vulnerable. It has triggered violent protests around the world in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. It has brought into sharp focus the plight of the poor, the hungry and the malnourished and spurred commitments to action from concerned individuals and institutions around the world. It has also led to a deeper examination of the source/origin of this crisis.
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