Hunger has been a concern for generations and has continued to plague hundreds of
millions of people around the world. Although many efforts have been devoted to reduce …

The current global food crisis has reemphasized the costliness of Africa's failure to achieve
food security and poverty reduction. The instrument by which other more successful …

Abstract The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), undertook a
biological control (BC) programme for control of stemborers from 1993 to 2008, to reduce …

Although traditional selective breeding has had a tremendous impact on both livestock and
crop production in Africa, this has not kept pace with the high demand for animal and plant …

This paper argues that food security and human development are intricately linked, and that
meaningful progress on the one cannot be sustained without concomitant progress on the …

The aim of this article was to investigate the food (in) security effect of household income
generated from major economic activities in rural Swaziland. From a sample of 979 …

In a world of high food and energy prices, Africa has an imperative to do a better job feeding
itself and ensuring that its people are food secure. At the same time, there is a new business …

To improve food security, many countries adopt protectionist measures and block actions
that are needed to improve the competitiveness and efficiency of domestic food commodity …

In July 2003, African leaders declared their commitment to an agriculture-led development
approach via the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) …

Kenya, like most countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa region, has continued to be
overwhelmed by high and volatile food prices. In an effort to mitigate this problem, the …