Like other Sahel countries, Senegal experienced a succession of food and nutrition crises in 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012. In 2012, severe food insecurity affected around 739,000 people, corresponding to 6.2 per cent of the Senegalese population. Nutrition surveys conducted in 2012 showed overall...

The development and implementation of an efficient institutional food procurement programme (IFPP) - which aims to link smallholder producers to institutional markets and promote development of food supply systems - is not a simple or straightforward task. It requires a series of conditions that...