Opportunity for food security in Africa? The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN)
Briefing
07-10-2013
The G8's recent New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) initiative is attracting more and more African states. Bringing together governments from both the North and the South, multinational firms and international agencies, it aims to boost investment in African agriculture so as to increase food security. After its first year of implementation, NAFSN proponents praise its market-oriented reforms and investments in the six founding African countries. In contrast, both African and global NGOs remain sceptical, pointing to a number of negative repercussions mainly on smallholders.
Briefing
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- Africa
- Africa
- agrarian reform
- agricultural policy
- agricultural real estate
- agricultural structures and production
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- business ethics
- business organisation
- chemistry
- cooperation on agriculture
- cooperation policy
- executive power and public service
- FAO
- farming systems
- fertiliser industry
- food shortage
- GEOGRAPHY
- health
- INDUSTRY
- international affairs
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- policy on agricultural structures
- POLITICS
- public-private partnership
- self-sufficiency in food
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- sustainable agriculture
- United Nations
- World Food Programme