"According to the African Regional Nutritional Strategy 2005-2015 by the African Union, sustainable access to food and nutrition security is a pre-requisite to socio economic development of any country. Deterioration of the nutrition situation coupled with increasing rates of poverty destroys any gains made and seriously constrains any future efforts to pull Africa out of underdevelopment. Empirical evidence from NEPAD shows that 204 million people in Sub-Sahara Africa are chronically malnourished." (Quoted from article)