From CNBC Africa

Monitoring Africa’s food prices using an index is essential to combat malnutrition on the continent.

This is according to Rafik Mahjoubi, an analyst at the African Development Bank who said that the creation of an African Food Price Index was of utmost importance after the continent suffered from a food and economic crisis in 2008-09.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the numbers of people who are hungry are calculated on the basis of national total food availability, expressed per capita and distributed statistically in relation to income.

Worldwide, there was an estimated 850 million people who were hungry before the food crisis of 2008-09, and over 900 million in 2010, of which 239 million lived in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Written by Farhaanah Mahomed/Read more at CNBC Africa