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ABSTRACT

Africa’s vast landmass, ecosystem and biodiversity have the agricultural potentials of feeding the entire world. As a continent, the greater size of her land mass is blessed with arable land, abundant water and climate favourable to all year round production of cash crops and rearing of all kinds of animal. Between the north and south, suitable land could be found to grow nearly every type of food product known in the world. Despite all these, the continent still remain the world capital of food insecurity that the citizens have to substitute their eating proportion with synthetic food imported from abroad. Adopting analytical method, this paper sets up that the change in Africa’s eating regimen due to food scarcity is step by step setting her health on time bomb because synthetic food runs parallel to Africa’s organic make-ups and tropical conditions. Thus, agricultural based policies and implementations must remain the main and continuous target goal of government at all levels to ensure food security of the nation and not just rhetoric for electioneering campaigns and winning of elections. What's more, legitimate bodies entrusted to monitoring the standard and safety of foods imported as well as those manufactured in this nation should sit up to their responsibilities, else the entire health of the continent will be endangered in no distant future