First things first, food security for Africa and Asia is an immediate global challenge.



According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food insecurity is a major global concern today as 1 billion people are suffering from starvation, under nutrition and malnutrition, and we are still far from reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to half extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.



The cost of food has increased worldwide since June 2011 and is today at an all-time high. This problem is much greater than the levels of the last great food crisis (2007-2008). The result is that many people, in their millions, are being dragged below the poverty line and several developing nations are facing the risk of a massive food shortages.



Studies point out that by 2050, there will be 3 billion more people to feed. And that will severely crippl...