allAfrica.com: Africa: New Web Portal Provides Open Data On Food and Nutrition Security in Africa

"While Africa south of the Sahara has made substantial improvements to its food security in recent years, one in four people in the region remains undernourished. A new web portal launched today that focuses on agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Africa south of the Sahara has been designed to strengthen capacity for timely food security information, policy research, and analysis to ensure the continued improvement of the region's food and nutrition security ... The blogs on the portal provide detailed summaries of recent research on a variety of topics related to food and nutrition security, including food access, input markets, and risk and resilience. It is hoped that this environment of open information-sharing and dialogue will help to increase the resilience of the region's poor to possible food-related crises, including price and climate shocks ...The portal also hosts a series of interactive maps tracking important economic and agricultural indicators throughout the continent, including cereal yields, harvest times, and soil composition. But as Dr. Torero points out, the portal's major innovation will be its people ..."