Declared the UN Year of Family Farming and the AU Year of Food Security, 2014 will be particularly interesting. With key challenges in terms of policy directions, international processes, and Europe-Africa relations, conflicts can certainly arise; but next year we could also see some break-through in all these three dimensions.

Expert in the CAADP process and head of ECDPM's Food Security programme, Francesco Rampa answers questions about the challenges for food security in 2014

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