“By 2010, African countries, on average, were spending 6.5 percent of their national budgets on agriculture and had achieved a 6.7 percent agricultural growth rate.” - ReSAKSS data was cited by Group of Eight (G8) in its Camp David Accountability Report.

Despite rapid economic growth, Africa is still one of the most food-insecure areas in the world with one quarter of the people undernourished.