If you have had access to a decent meal and the means to procure same for your enjoyment over the past 24 hours in Africa, you are part of a privileged minority!

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported in 2019 that “an estimated 820 million people around the world did not have enough to eat in 2018 up from 811 million the previous year which is the third year of increase in a row. This underscores the immense challenge of meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of zero hunger by 2030”.

Africa is reported to have the most alarming hunger situation as the region has “the highest rates of hunger in the world and which is continuing to slowly but steadily rise in almost all sub-regions”.

How can we create access to affordable, nutrient-dense food and the economic wherewithal to procure same for a larger proportion of Africans who are too poor to afford food on a regular and consistent basis?