Eritrea has long graduated from dependency on food aid

BY HOMMES d’AFRIQUE MAGAZINE

Eritrea is located in one of the driest parts of the African continent. Like its neighboring countries, the country suffers from repeated shortfall of rains which affects agricultural production and availability of drinking water. However, the country has long graduated from dependency on food aid.

Eritrea has taken ensuring food security as one of the top national priorities and the cornerstone for sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. The food security strategy, adopted more than a decade ago, aims at ensuring that all Eritreans have sufficient quantity of nutritious food, at an affordable price, at any given time and place within the country. This is to be achieved largely from a combination of increasing in domestic food production and importation from abroad. Continue reading Eritrea Conserving Every Drop of Water →