Jomo Kwame Sundaram, IPS News
Former UN Food and Agriculture Organization economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram, citing “False Promises” report on failures of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, calls out AGRA head Agnes Kalibata for downplaying nutritional diversity in fighting hunger. Extreme hunger has increased more than 40% in her home country of Rwanda.
“Even progress in addressing dietary energy undernourishment in the world has been uneven, with Africa projected to overtake South Asia in a decade as the region with the most hungry people, rising to 433 million in 2030 from a quarter billion.
The report False Promises argues that despite improved understanding of malnutrition, a narrow focus on increasing caloric supply, at the expense of both crop and dietary diversity, is being promoted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)….”