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ABSTRACT

Food is the most important of the three basic needs (food, shelter and clothes) for human existence and development. The process (agriculture) that brings about food is the bedrock of every nation's development. One fundamental instrument for its growth is technology. Africa has an opportunity to play a bigger role in the world economy, but first, it must tackle the obstacles of deficit in scientific knowledge as well as technological backwardness. In contemporary Africa, there still exists the challenge of food insecurity, which gives room for endemic, vulnerability of rural poverty and human capital underdevelopment. Popper’s philosophy contains ideas that are capable of stimulating the needed knowledge relevant to Africa’s quest for development in the 21st century. Therefore, in unison with Popper’s philosophy on the above, and bearing in mind that the 21st century is an age where development is largely determined, not by natural resources any longer, but by knowledge economy and technological revolution - this paper focused on achieving food security through agricultural development, using relevant technologies in advancing agricultural output. In this paper, I also examined the problems militating against agriculture in Africa, as well as how investment in the agriculture and technology can be indispensable tool achieving food security and development. The result from review of related literatures showed that in Africa, there is a high level of food insecurity because of low attention on food production occasioned by the use of crude implements and inconsistency in government’s agricultural development policies and programmes, as well as the Covid-19 crisis that is affecting global economies. Conclusively, in Africa, both the citizens and government despise agriculture. Deterioration in technology has long been identified as one of the reasons for poor agricultural production performance and food scarcity in Africa. Workable recommendations are outlined; among others, the researchers recommend that African leaders should mechanize agriculture; also, social protection policies should be channeled to agricultural sector to protect farmers who are vulnerable to threat of life and avert risks associated with farming.