Within the last year alone, food crises have devastated millions in sub-Saharan Africa, moving from the Horn of Africa to most recently the Sahel. Despite a decade that broke from a track record of poor policy prescriptions and lagging economic growth, the region has not made parallel progress in addressing food security and nutrition.
According to African Human Development Report 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future, recently released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), economic growth rates were at 6.5 percent between 2004 and 2008. Despite a dip in 2009, growth rebounded to over 5 percent for 2010 and 2011. Examining development indicators, many countries have succeeded in raising expected years of schooling, life expectancy at birth, with sub-Saharan African countries making the greatest improvements in the Human Development Index (HDI) between 2000 and 2011.
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