Food Insecurity as a Result of Access Denial in the Horn of Africa

Climate vulnerability, low adaptive capacity, conflict, and state fragility drive acute food security challenges across the Horn of Africa. Prolonged drought in the region has devastated communities-especially pastoralists-resulting in 37 million people experiencing the worst hunger crisis in the last 70 years. Although humanitarian organizations have experimented with new modalities to mitigate acute food insecurity, aid remains hampered by insufficient resources and access challenges, including bureaucratic impediments and interference, hostilities, and physical constraints.
The international community must resolve existing barriers and recommit to addressing the world’s most prolonged and acute food crisis. This panel brings together food security and humanitarian experts to examine the intersection of food security and humanitarian access in the Horn of Africa, including response modalities, political and conflict dynamics, and famine risk.
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In that Horn of Africa lies the continental Organisation called the African Uniion founded in 1963. Food security was one of its core objectives at its foundation.
What happened to this core objective since 1963, I mean why it hasn't been achieved?
To what extent a continent blessed with arable lands and made of more than 50 nations, drought can explain hunger crisis in two or three countries among 54 countries without any complementary from other countries if food security was a core objective since 1963?
If fertilizers are critical to food security, why in from 1963 Africa has not a capacity to produce fertilizers?
African countries are plenty in International Organizations such as the Commonwealth, Francophonie, etc they organized Commonwealth Games, Francophonie Games, they gather in ceremonies. In the conversations do they talk about the continent's objective of food security since 1963? Can they build fertilizer plant somewhere in Africa?