The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently issued the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024. The report reveals that food insecurity in Africa remains the highest of any region, with rates of hunger that are on the rise. In 2023, 298.4 million people were estimated to have faced hunger, compared with 41.0 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 3.3 million in Oceania. This numbers have grown steadily since 2015. There is a clear trend of rising prevalence of undernourishment in Africa, in contrast with other regions like Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, where progress is being made or nutrition levels remain unchanged.

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The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) e-Tariff Book is a web-based electronic database that contains the updated Schedules of Tariff Concessions submitted by AfCFTA state parties and Customs Unions active in Africa, as well as information on tariffs applicable on goods exchanged between African countries within the AfCFTA liberalisation agenda. Launched by the AfCFTA Secretariat in July 2022, this tool provides an essential guidance to economic operators in African States that trade under the AfCFTA rules. The functions of the tariff book have been recently expanded, allowing now traders to easily determine the product-specific rule of origin (RoO) that their product needs to fulfil in order they can qualify for preferential trade under the AfCFTA.

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