Recognizing the importance of food and nutrition security (FNS) for improving public health, labor productivity, and economic growth, the world has committed to end all forms of hunger by ensuring access to sufficient and nutritious food for all people (Goal 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals). Countries have made significant progress in their food security agendas by improving productivity and food production, addressing socio-economic, gender, and regional inequalities in access to food, and by building resilient agricultural practices.

Recent AGI research on food and nutrition security has found that, despite much progress in Africa on these issues, environmental shocks and other vulnerabilities; resource constraints and inefficiencies; and policy implementation gaps threaten the progress and sustainability of FNS interventions.

Progress on nutrition security in particular has lagged largely because it is a lot more complex. Indeed, some countries with sufficient food continue to have pockets of nutritionally insecure communities and sub-regions.

Read the full article about Africa's food security issues by Eyerusalem Siba at Brookings.