Dismal figures dominate conversations on food security in Africa.
Up to 230 million Africans are chronically malnourished, and 40 percent of children under the age of 5 will experience stunted mental and physical development.
Just last week, and as World Food Day put a spotlight on these issues, the International Food Policy Research Institute released its latest Global Hunger Index, topped — unsurprisingly — by sub-Saharan African countries. Angola, Chad and Sierra Leone were recorded as having the highest under-5 mortality rate due to hunger, ranging from 15 percent to more than 18 percent.
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Lindiwe Majele Sibanda
Lindiwe Majele Sibanda is CEO of the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network. In 2009, she led the "No-Agriculture, No-Deal" global campaign mobilizing African CSOs to push for the inclusion of agriculture in the U.N. Framework for Climate Change Convention negotiations. Sibanda is a trustee of CGIAR boards CIMMYT and ILRI and since 2008 has been involved with the Farming First campaign advocating for a holistic approach to sustainable agricultural development.
