**5. Policy proposals**

1.**African political leadership and economic decision-makers** should strive to formulate economic development strategies that are inclusive and peoplecentered rather than *elites and upper middle-class cosmopolitan-driven*. That is to say, Africa needs inclusive shared prosperity and constructive policies focused on Africa's youth and women and solely addressed against the challenges of a population set to double by the year 2050. Employment and job creation policies ought to also be the top priority beyond anything else for the *African political leadership*. Those are the real challenges that Africa will be facing in the next coming decades.

5.**African political leadership and economic decision-makers** should understand once for all that without a sustained political stability and zero tolerance of any sort of institutional or personal (family-induced) corruption, agricultural production and food relief efforts that are badly needed to combat hunger, decisively tackle food insecurity, and achieve the nutrition needs and targets in Africa will never be possible. Peace therefore should be at the center of any national policy and be made the highest priority if Africa does not want to forever be dependent on the *good will* of foreigners, continuously import

foods, and forever beg for development aid and largesse.

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Mahamat Kabirou Dodo1,2,3

1 International Academy of Social Science, Miami, FL, USA

\*Address all correspondence to: mahamatkd@gmail.com

provided the original work is properly cited.

2 Center of Excellence, Institute of European Studies, University of California,

3 Centre de Documentaciò Europea, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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**JEL Code:** N57, Q1, Q5, F63

*Understanding Africa's Food Security Challenges DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91773*


*Understanding Africa's Food Security Challenges DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91773*

5.**African political leadership and economic decision-makers** should understand once for all that without a sustained political stability and zero tolerance of any sort of institutional or personal (family-induced) corruption, agricultural production and food relief efforts that are badly needed to combat hunger, decisively tackle food insecurity, and achieve the nutrition needs and targets in Africa will never be possible. Peace therefore should be at the center of any national policy and be made the highest priority if Africa does not want to forever be dependent on the *good will* of foreigners, continuously import foods, and forever beg for development aid and largesse.
