@article{Heidhues:42270,
      recid = {42270},
      author = {Heidhues, Franz and Atsain, Achi and Nyangito, Hezron  Omare and Padilla, Martine and Ghersi, Gerard and Le  Vallee, Jean-Charles},
      title = {Development Strategies and Food and Nutrition Security in  Africa : An Assessment},
      address = {2004},
      number = {568-2016-39023},
      series = {2020 Discussion Paper},
      pages = {60},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {hunger and malnutrition. If we are to succeed, it is vital  that food and nutrition security strategies
be both sound  and able to be implemented. Ultimately, strategies  deficient in either of
these two areas will be ineffectual.  Lessons from past strategies provide a valuable resource
in  the design of future strategies, yet there is a dearth of  programmatic information and rigorous
evaluations of the  approaches used in the past.
With this in mind, the authors  of this 2020 discussion paper—Franz Heidhues, Achi
Atsain,  Hezron Nyangito, Martine Padilla, Gérard Ghersi, and  Jean-Charles Le Vallée—
review the multitude of approaches  and strategies for achieving food and nutrition security  in
Africa within the context of development over the past  four decades. They assess the extent
to which these plans  have been implemented and identify the key constraints and  limitations,
along with the priority investments needed for  more effective design and implementation in
the  future.
This paper was commissioned for the IFPRI 2020  Africa Conference, “Assuring Food and
Nutrition Security in  Africa by 2020: Prioritizing Actions, Strengthening Actors,  and
Facilitating Partnerships,” which was held in Kampala,  Uganda, from April 1 to April 3,
2004. There, the lessons  learned from decades of successes and failures in designing  and
implementing strategies in and for Africa contributed  to an informed and informative discussion
of how to improve  the implementation of action to end hunger and  malnutrition. We
thank the authors for setting the stage  for the systematic examination of these extremely  important
issues and hope that this paper is only the  beginning of such endeavors.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/42270},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.42270},
}