PROMOTING FOOD SECURITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Access to adequate food constitutes the most serious problem for most African households today. Low productivity, rapid population growth, f ood aid and food importation, structural adjustment programmes, illite racy, environmental degradation, poorly formulated and executed food p olicies, wars and political instability are among the factors held res ponsible for food insecurity and food inadequacy in Sub-Saharan Africa . The promotion of food security and improvement of living conditions of the African people should form the core of development programmes i n Africa for years to come. Therefore, policy reversals are urgently n eeded to put Africa on the path of development, and a cooperative regi onalism is advocated. Africans both at home and in the diaspora must c ollectively assume the responsibility for the advancement of African a griculture and economy.