Full Food Basket for Africa by 2020: A 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative

This publication is a collection of entries from a recent African youth writing contest sponsored by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in preparation for the all-Africa conference "Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020" held in Kampala, Uganda, from April 1 to 3, 2004. According to IFPRI, this contest event encouraged young students to give a voice to their vision of Africa's food and nutrition situation in the year 2020 and what can be done to make tomorrow's reality better than today's. Over 200 youth from more than two dozen countries, from Morocco to South Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia, expressed both confidence that hunger in Africa can be overcome and a strong desire for action.

This booklet contains a selection of poems, stories, and essays of teenage Africans expressing their insights, hopes, dreams, and among this variety there is a composition that poetically illustrates the ideas and mission of organisations involved. The young writers presented here "are clearly eager about taking action and overcoming the challenges that face Africa." The publishers encourage the reprinting of the material in this booklet.