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Several major initiatives in the past few years have brought renewed attention and commitment to economic development and food and nutrition security in Africa.¹ The recent economic recovery and the new commitment to change among African leaders and development partners indicate for the first time after decades that Africa is poised to achieve real progress toward food and nutrition security. Sustaining and accelerating growth to reach the poverty reduction and nutrition Millennium Development Goals will require clear strategies to guide future policy and investment decisions. Furthermore, these goals seek to only halve the number of poor and malnourished in the next 10 years, something a number of African countries will fail to do. Progress toward food and nutrition security in Africa, therefore, calls for more than growth and requires a greater focus on human welfare improvement supported by adequate investments in health and nutrition safety nets to protect vulnerable segments of the population.

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1. These include the New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development; the InterAcademy Council's Africa Report; the UN Millennium Project; the Commission for Africa; and the Conference on Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020.