This situation continues unabated in most of Africa with few signs of getting any better in the near future. Millions are dying of starvation and malnutrition every year.
Significant evidence exists of food insecurity in the better part of the continent.
The root cause of food insecurity and hunger in Africa, like the rest of the developing world, is the widespread poverty afflicting hundreds of millions of people. Poor people are powerless, have limitations gaining access to national assets and resources such as land and capital and are therefore economically deprived and, by inference, become also socially and politically deprived. Widespread poverty in Africa is on the increase and is persistent, one of the reasons being the continuation of the dramatic deterioration of the relative income distribution that have led to increasing social ills, political upheavals, misuse of available resources, and falling living standards for all. Time has come for the African economies to be up in arms to fight poverty for no one can reconcile oneself with the persistence of poverty in a world of plenty. That this is allowed to continue is the most profound moral contradictions of our time.