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One in four Africans
nearly 218 million people
remain undernourished.
UNDP - African Human Development Report 2012
There has been rapid economic growth
the last 10 years in Africa.
On average 5-6 percent growth.
(Tegegnework Gettu - Director, Africa Bureau, UNDP) We simply can't afford
(Tegegnework Gettu - Director, Africa Bureau, UNDP) asking for food aid
(Tegegnework Gettu - Director, Africa Bureau, UNDP) or begging for food for,
at this stage of human development
Millions of people are gripped with hunger,
millions of people are in food insecurity,
hunger, sometimes even starvation.
It's a sad feeling in a continent of plenty.
The solutions have to be coordinated.
It's not any one thing.
(Helen Clark - UNDP Administrator) What if you grow a whole lot more food
(Helen Clark - UNDP Administrator) but then you can't store it
(Helen Clark - UNDP Administrator) and get it to market.
The extra food isn't going to feed
anybody extra.
So we need to be looking at
the whole chain of production,
supply, distribution.
The role of women in food security
particularly in Africa,
(Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - President, Liberia) is profound and is critical.
(Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - President, Liberia) Women are the producers,
(Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - President, Liberia) the marketers,
the preservers of food.
If women have the same level of education,
the same level of access to food assets
the yield in full crops is likely to be
20 percent higher.
We're not fated to starve,
we're not fated to have food insecurity.
With dedication,
with coherent policy,
food insecurity is solvable.
The ingredients are there
the technology is there. The science is there.
So it's a harsh paradox for us.
To have such kind of surface and underground water
to have such kind of natural endowment,
and not be able to face and change the reality.
It's possible to change the reality.
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