Food and agricultural production, food security and food self sufficiency in Africa

Abstract

The first four years of the 1990s indicate that African economies have grown by an estimated mere 1.5 per cent per annum - worse than during the "lost decade" of the 1980s when Africa's economic annual growth rate was on average 1.8 per cent during the period 1980-1990. This growth is barely half of the rate of growth of Africa's population and is well below the annual average growth target of 4 per cent set by the World Food Conference in 1974, and still worse than the 6 per cent set in the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s.