Six Perspectives on African Food Security

The first step in increasing food security in Africa is “to put smallholder farmers at the center of all our efforts and enable them to increase their incomes, improve their livelihoods and lift themselves out of poverty,” stated Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. A majority of the food produced in sub-Saharan Africa comes from smallholder farmers, mostly women. The former Secretary-General of the UN is profiled in the article “Fighting for African food security” author…