Food-Secure Africa (IPS)

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Progress Towards a Food-Secure Africa

By Miriam Gathigah

A growing number of African countries are making significant progress towards eradicating extreme hunger and poverty. Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and South Africa are some of the countries that have made tremendous achievements towards achieving these goals.

This has been reflected in a hunger-free score card geared towards measuring food security in Africa by ActionAid International, a non-governmental organisation that works towards a world without poverty and also in research by ACORD, the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development, which is an authority on food security in Africa.

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