Annan leads drive to reverse Africa's farming decline : Mail & Guardian Online

Annan leads drive to reverse Africa's farming decline : Mail & Guardian Online: "Annan leads drive to reverse Africa's farming decline"

Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan took the helm on Thursday of an alliance of African government and business leaders seeking to reverse a decline in the continent's agricultural output.

Sub-Saharan African food production was declining year-on-year as a third of the continent's population suffers from hunger, Annan told reporters at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town." Ours is a continent that contains 16 of the 18 least nourished countries in the world," Annan said, accepting nomination as chairperson of the board of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.