Food security and food sovereignty in West Africa

Framing the Intractable: Comprehensive Success Factor Analysis for Grand Challenges

“…Measurement and Evaluation: Monitoring of the food system has been structured based on sets of indicators that measure different aspects of the system outputs as well as outcomes in terms of health and mortality rates among children and adults. The major branches of this section describe indicators to measure improvements in nutritional consumption, food accessibility, stability in food security, uptake of nutritious food, indicators of the existence of double burden, and indicators of impact [112 , 115 , 116] .…”

A data‐driven approach to mitigating food insecurity and achieving zero hunger: A case study of West African countries

“…A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2009) detailing how the world population should be fed reveals that West Africa's population will be 490 million by 2030 and the world population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050 (Losch, 2014). According to researchers, rapid population growth and urbanization are the leading causes of food insecurity and widespread undernourishment across West Africa (Andersson Djurfeldt, 2015; Bini, 2018; Hall et al, 2017).…”

“…According to researchers, rapid population growth and urbanization are the leading causes of food insecurity and widespread undernourishment across West Africa (Andersson Djurfeldt, 2015;Bini, 2018;Hall et al, 2017).…”

The ECOWAS agricultural policy and the quest for food security: assessing Nigeria’s implementation strategies

“…Although there is an appreciable number of studies on food security in relation to Africa and the West African sub-region, their focus tends to be general and with emphases on manmade or nature-induced impediments to achieving food sufficiency and sovereignty on the continent (Sasson 2012;Jalloh et al 2013;Mbow et al 2014;Bini 2016). Studies with narrower focus on countries in the West African sub-region as well as Nigeria have often evaluated food security within the context of national and subnational efforts at food production without holistic linkages to sub-regional and continental agricultural initiatives and policies (Abu 2012;Dupraz and Postolle 2013;Simson and Tang 2016;Bini 2016;Nwozor, Olanrewaju, and Ake 2019). Thus, there is a dearth of studies on how sub-regional and continental agricultural initiatives have affected the trajectory of government policies on agricultural productivity and by extension the prospects of leveraging on agriculture to achieve food security and roll back poverty.…”