Food and Agriculture
Agriculture is the backbone of Africa’s economy. It accounts for 70 percent of full-time employment in the continent. About 70 percent of the population of Africa and roughly 80 percent of its poor live in rural areas and depend mainly on this sector (agriculture) for their livelihood. It is therefore obvious that anytime Africa’s agriculture fails to perform adequately, the majority of its people inevitably fail to meet their basic food, health care and other needs. The trouble is: the performance of the continent’s agriculture has been continuously disappointing for decades. Read more…
Water Supply and Sanitation
The water supply and sanitation coverage in Africa is very poor. Recent data show that only 58 per cent of the Sub- Saharan African populations have access to sufficient and safe water. The average drinking water coverage is 82 per cent in the cities and only 45 per cent in the rural areas. Read more…
Rehabilitation of the Underprivileged
Millions of disabled, refugees, displaced, orphans and other severely under-privileged agonize day after day in precarious conditions in the slums and the streets of Africa. These are the victims of accidents, diseases, famine and malnutrition, civil strife and natural calamities. They include blind, deaf, dumb, crippled and street children. Most are excluded from schools or work and condemned to a life of abject poverty. Read more…
Technology
Technological backwardness generally characterizes Africa’s road to development. This continent does not fully use available and free technologies that have helped the developed and the newly industrial countries achieve their present level of development. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), enough technologies are available which, if used, can raise the continent’s agriculture to the high producing status that is found today in the North and many countries of the South. Read more…
Countries
Cameroon | Ghana | Ethiopia | Kenya | Nigeria | Togo | South Africa
