MDGs Scorecard -Performance of Africa in Efforts to Eradicate Poverty
Who's Really Fighting Hunger? a report by ActionAid that was recently released in
In Southern Africa,
. According to the report,
According the report, The South African government in the last two years has begun to increase spending in rural economies and has shifted the agricultural policy’s focus to the needs of poor smallholders. In addition, funding has been committed to some of the areas with the highest concentration of poverty - mostly in the former apartheid homelands’, where 60 percent of today’s rural population lives.
In East Africa,
The report recommends that the Kenyan government urgently implements effective hunger policies like empowering small scale-farmers. Other recommendations include direct funding to sustainable agriculture, increase in social protection programme, a freeze to land-buying by foreign countries and multinationals and the preparing and approval of the national food and nutritional policy.
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