the goal for those seeking to develop and deploy these technologies and innovations in farm management is to unlock the productivity growth potential and achieve sustainable food security the prices of staple foods remain high above their longterm averages and over million africans continue to face chronic hunger ensuring food security in the region will require action to improve productivity and rural livelihoods and to address international market imbalances and the structural challenges inherent in african agriculture th i s chapter argues that efforts to improve food security involve much more than just producing more food