by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest percentage of undernourished people in the world (approximately 20 percent). Therefore, food security is one of the most urgent regional challenges. Simultaneously, as the demand for rice increases sharply, so do the...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge The simultaneous global economic and environmental crises in recent years have brought into relief the urgent need to separate the unsustainable use of natural resources from economic growth based on industrial production patterns that have been largely...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Over the last four decades, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced more than 1,000 disasters. They are a major threat to development, putting recent economic development gains at risk. Africa’s disaster profile is characterized by extreme...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Africa’s population is forecast to double by 2050. Meanwhile, the continent’s average cereal yields have shown little improvement since the 1960s in contrast to steep rises in productivity throughout much of Asia. Over the same period, Africa has...
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...
