by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Guinea-Bissau, like many sub-Saharan African countries, faced the turmoil of the global food crisis of 2007 and 2008 when skyrocketing international and domestic prices hit the country hard. Once a major exporter of rice, Guinea-Bissau now imports almost...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Africa now has some of the fastest-growing economies in the world but in many cases, it has not been able to translate that progress into lower unemployment rates and a reduction in poverty levels. Given the continent’s vast human and material...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Despite progress to date in reducing hunger in developing countries, 11.3 per cent of the world’s population remains hungry. Roughly 805 million people around the world go undernourished. Approximately 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Agriculture is the largest sector of the economy in Sierra Leone, employing over 65 per cent of the labour force. Although the country has enormous agricultural resource potential, there are still many communities that have inadequate access to food. To...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge It is estimated that some 388.8 million people in sub-Saharan Africa or 42.7 per cent of its total populations live on less than $1.90 a day. The region’s population growth rate continues to exceed the growth rate of regional food production, a...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Although rice is a staple food for people in West Africa, most of it is imported. FAO estimated in 2006 that rice imports to the West and Central Africa subregions had reached more than 6 million tonnes, costing over $1 billion. The cost of importing rice is...
