At Alliance for Food Security we are committed to playing our part in ensuring that all people have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times. We however recognize that as it stands out now, the ideal situation described above is far from being achieved, it’s still a mirage.

Millions of people across the world continue to face desperate food shortages accelerated by an assortment of factors including but not limited to inadequate water especially for agricultural activities, over-reliance on seasonal rainfall that sometimes fails,  use of substandard/rudimentary farming and value addition technologies, negative effects of climate change, inadequate government policies, focus and commitment, limited knowledge on the part of farmers, inadequate marketing channels for farmers, discard of some good, sustainable and drought resistant traditional food crops among communities,  prohibitive and stringent tariffs and non-tariffs border rules that hinder movement  of food, poor transportation infrastructure that hinders movement of food from food-surplus areas to food-deficit areas

Poor post-harvest management techniques, wars and civil strife, terrorism , corruption, unemployment, over-exploitation of sections of the population by other sections in the same population, incompatible individual, group or communal mindsets regarding food production, laziness, diseases and self-limiting restrictions on what to eat or not.