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Small and medium agro-enterprises, vital to improved agricultural development and food security in East Africa


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December 24, 2020
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By Dr Chimimba David Phiri

Nearly 620 million people were still hungry globally in 2019, according to the recent State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report, underscoring the immense challenge of achieving the Zero Hunger target by 2030. In Africa, hunger is on the rise in almost all African Subregions. The latest data shows that 239 million hungry people are living in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Eastern Africa Subregion contributes more than 50 per cent of the chronically hungry people in Africa even though the region contributes under 25 per cent of Africa’s population. Compounded impacts of droughts, severe flooding, and desert locust infestation in Eastern Africa already undermined food security and nutrition. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has further threatened livelihoods in the Subregion, which, apart from contributing more than half of the Sub-Saharan Africa’s chronic food insecure p ....

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