[New Times] Food insecurity has long been a devastating problem that hundreds of millions of Africans have endured for decades. In the late 1960s, one million people died of starvation in Nigeria during the Biafran war. In the late 1970s, food shortages and hunger in Ethiopia triggered by a natural disaster cost the lives of 1 million Africans. These occurrences continued in the '80s and 90s, and only in the past decade and a half the number of people living in extreme food insecurity finally began decreasing.
