Framework for developing and implementing comprehensive food security policies and programme : resolving food security in Africa a strategic framework for basic food and nutritional security

Abstract

The paper deals a review of the socio-economic conditions in Africa shows a continuous decline in the capacity of an increasing number of both rural and urban populations to access to food and other basic needs including potable water, health services, education and shelter. Over the last decades, household food security situation has reached a threatening emergency level. In a number of countries, not only more people go to bed hungry every day but a great number of their population are brought into a state of insecurity and instability due to the breakdown in the social fabrics and the expansion of war, ethnic conflicts, political turmoil, organized crime, diseases and natural disasters which all have an impact on the productive capacity of the population.