East Africa: Farming Key to World Stability

2 October 2012

Tonight, hundreds of millions of African families will go hungry. Similarly, hundreds of millions of children will suffer irreversible cognitive impairment owing malnutrition.

The fulcrum of Africa's food and nutrition security crisis is the dividend from nearly three decades of woeful under-investment in agriculture.

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