Meeting Africa's Food and Water Needs- Whose Job is it?
Context There are massively large-scale water and food security issues facing a great proportion of African countries, with 387 million people in Sub-Sahran Africa without access to drinking water in 2015, with Sub-Sahran Africa ‘making the slowest relative and aggregate global progress’ ( Hope, 2015 ). In addition, 37% of the African continent is facing food insecurity in 2020 (up from 25% in 2000) ( Mumuni, 2020 ). However, much academic debate has revolved around which combination of institutions should take on the task of meeting these needs, with various countries shifting between public, private, community-lead and public-private partnership models of development of water and food infrastructure. Public Infrastructure Development and Issues of Governance: Whilst provision of clean drinking water can be seen as a public service that the government should provide, there has been ‘great pressure ’ for many African nations to increasingly privatise their wa...