Ecosystem failure causes African food crisis

[dArKeR]

Southern Africa faces a looming food crisis as it is not producing enough to feed its people - although it has sufficient land and natural resources to do so.

Unless there is decisive action, the region will be unable to meet the global target, set by the Millennium Summit in 2000, of halving the number of hungry people by 2015.

This is one of the sobering findings of a four-year study released this week by the Southern African Millennium Assessment which involved hundreds of social and natural scientists from throughout the region.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=vn20040929042822401C825762

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Halving the number of hungry people by 2015

The best candidate for doing that would be famine.

--bkl