FAO wants African leaders to tackle hunger, malnutrition
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has urged African governments to quickly address growing cases of hunger and malnutrition on the continent, according to a report released a few weeks ago. FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva The report which put the number of individuals suffering from hunger in sub-Sahara Africa at 224 million in 2016 as a result of climate change and conflict - an increase of 10 percent – indicated that cases of malnutrition had gone up to 22.7per cent from 20.8per cent between 2015 and 2016. In a related development, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced that the German government had agreed to release €20 million to the FAO in order to help smallholder-farmers in developing countries to fight the shock of climate change and improve on food security. Périn Saint Ange, IFAD’s Associate Vice President, said “These funds will not only help in our efforts to adapt smallholder agricult...