**7. Food accessibility in sub-Saharan Africa**

In rural areas, people have less access to safe food than people in urban areas. It is the rural counties that supply the urban cities with food. Perhaps rural people do not have enough cash to afford sufficient nutritious meals. Or, due to lack of resources,


*Source: CIRAD, Afrisat, AFD AGRA, 2020 https://agra.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AASR-2020-Feeding-African-Cities.pdf.*

#### **Table 4.**

*Food accessibility in the selected African regions.*

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they are unable to buy the required food supplements. As noticed by [32], even in abundant regions, food shortages can happen, mostly due to poor conservation techniques or post-harvest losses. In fact, at the sub-regional level, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the region with the highest prevalence of hunger with one person in four being undernourished [33]. Additionally, owing to SSA's population growth, the demand for food will still rise, and persist, thereby leading to the push for stronger interventions to boost food security and nutrition, as well as to end hunger. Agriculture should become a priority as it accounts for approximately 30% of African economies and comprises over 60% of the workforce in these nations [34, 35].

The above table illustrates food accessibility in some African countries (**Table 4**).
