UN General Assembly
1986

Africa, for its part, is determined to achieve food self-sufficiency between now and the year 2000, in accordance with the relevant resolution of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FSO). Therefore, we request massive and decisive support on the part of the international community to enable Africa to ensure its security and autonomy in the natter of food. At a recent meeting in Yamoussoukro In the Cote d'Ivoire, the African Ministers of Agriculture adopted a strategy to bring about food self-sufficiency and defined a consistent agricultural development programs for the next 25 years. What we must do today is to move on from the stage of emergency aid to structural assistance, which will make it possible for in-depth action to be pursued, a sort of action which frees people from the nightmare of famine and poverty.