{"id":1249287,"date":"2022-11-12T07:35:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T07:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/12\/sub-saharan-africa-is-the-most-food-insecure-region-in-the-world-imf-report\/"},"modified":"2022-11-12T07:35:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T07:35:34","slug":"sub-saharan-africa-is-the-most-food-insecure-region-in-the-world-imf-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/12\/sub-saharan-africa-is-the-most-food-insecure-region-in-the-world-imf-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Saharan Africa is the most food-insecure region in the world &#8211; IMF report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Food\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Food.png\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Food.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Food\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">About 123 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are without consistent access to enough food, the latest <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">IMF Africa<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> report has said.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The report discusses the drivers and policies to achieve food security in the most food insecure region in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The report explained that inflation in sub-Saharan Africa has risen significantly in the past two years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">123 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are without consistent access to enough food. The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IMFAfrica?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IMFAfrica<\/a> report discusses the drivers and policies to achieve food security in the most food insecure region in the world. https:\/\/t.co\/R21nLC4h0Z <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DzTDtJafo5\">pic.twitter.com\/DzTDtJafo5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IMF (@IMFNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IMFNews\/status\/1591169776319025152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Domestic demand has played a more limited role given the region\u2019s slow recovery. Instead, inflation is mainly driven by external factors, including global commodity prices and disruptions to global supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Tackling inflation while supporting growth and protecting the vulnerable therefore warrants careful and vigilant monetary policy tightening, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Sub-Saharan Africa is the most food-insecure region in the world, the report said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana with additional files from IMF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 123 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are without consistent access to enough food, the latest IMF Africa report has said. The report discusses the drivers and policies to achieve food security in the most food insecure region in the world. The report explained that inflation in sub-Saharan Africa has risen significantly in the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[671,28807,3074,2114,1584,4273,784],"class_list":["post-1249287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-africa","tag-foodinsecure","tag-imf","tag-region","tag-report","tag-subsaharan","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}