The United Nations has taken a new approach to reaping the most out of its investments in Africa’s welfare. One of its programs, a five-year urban horticulture programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has more than doubled

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food production in Sub-Saharan Africa grew in 2008 for the first time in decades. Production increased by 3.5 percent, which was higher than the 2 percent increase in the continent’s population.