Regional Integration and Food security in Eastern Africa

Abstract

Providing adequate food for their population has been one of the major challenges for the five member states of the East African Community (EAC). In various parts of these countries, food security is precarious and hundreds of thousands in the region are dependant on food intervention for their daily food requirement needs. Although food insecurity in the region is often attributed to natural disasters such as recurrent droughts, inappropriate policies that have failed to address the region's problems within the context of an increasingly globalized economy have also contributed to lack of adequate food.Journal of Language, Technology and Entrepreneurship in Africa Vol. 1 (1) 2007 pp.165-177