The increase in efficiency of food and the significant growth in the food supply without compromising the need of the people is important.
Below are some ways on how to strengthen the food security in Africa in different aspects:
Short Term Effect
1. Price regulations.
There should be a governing body who will handle and watch the price regulations regularly. So entrepreneurs will not take the opportunity to continuously increase their prices without proper basis.
They can also manage the food being imported and exported on the country. This way they can minimize or maximize the amount of products you need to sustain the people’s needs.
Mid-term Effect
2. Eco agriculture for farmers.
This is needed in order to meet and provide local and consumer need. The use on inter cropping is also advisable in order to minimize the use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides.
3. Infrastructure.
Road access is important and improving these infrastructures can lead to a sustainable growth in numbers of saving your time, money, effort and sometimes even food. This is because food won’t be rotten.
Long Term Effect
4. Climate friendly.
This just means that there is a need to limit global warming. This will also be the time to start doing or promoting agricultural systems which are climate friendly.
5. Awareness.
Creating awareness to the people particularly about food consumption as well as the increasing population growth is a must. Awareness may not be enough, the government must find an alternative solution for this like providing them jobs that they can have to at least lessen the population growth.
6. Food quality.
People need to eat yes, this is indeed one of the important necessities they need. But one must remember that food consumption doesn’t mean eating food for the sake of in taking calories, carbohydrates. But it is also about eating quality food which offers and contributes nutrition needed by the body.
In this age and time you can also use several social Medias like Facebook and twitter as outlets in order to reach a wide and vast of voices. This way, authorities or governing bodies know the things they needed to do and improve. They will be able to hear the needs of their people in an instant too.
There are a lot of ways to ensure the food security in Africa. The given lists above are just some of the things they can do and take into considerations with.