Development Aid to Africa
- National efforts to address food security should integrate nutrition interventions into their broader development initiatives. Incorporating nutrition concerns into agricultural production and processing, for example, is one way of improving knowledge of nutrition among the wider public. In the long term, these interventions are critical to ensuring that addressing hunger and health also means addressing nutrition (Hunger Report 2006, Page 91) Cross Reference: Food Security, African Agriculture
- Current efforts to integrate research institutions into regional networks should be supported and strengthened to promote technology sharing, capacity building and efficient allocation of scarce resources. Renewed interest in African agriculture by the World Bank, USAID, European Union and others, should translate into additional funding that allows African scientists and policymakers to explore new technological innovations for increasing food production and quality, such as organic farming and agricultural biotechnology (Hunger Report 2003, Page 83). Cross Reference: African Agriculture and Biotechnology
Transportation infrastructure would reduce the time women spend on their chores, freeing them to go to school, increase agricultural productivity, improve market opportunities, access social services, and engage in nonagricultural employment (Hunger Report 2001, Page 99). Cross Reference: Empowerment of Women, Agriculture
- Principles of Development Assistance to Africa: Truly sustainable development in Africa can only be achieved by Africans; U.S.-Africa policies must focus on poverty reduction; and U.S.-Africa policies must grow out of participatory consultation (Hunger Report 2001, Page 85).
- Bread for the World will urge Congress to continue funding for debt relief and provide a substantial increase in poverty-focused aid to Africa (Hunger Report 2001, Page 71). Cross Reference: Debt Relief
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