National food production cannot address nutrient gaps in African countries

Feukam Nzudie, Harold L., Zhao, Xu, Tian, Peipei, He, Pan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1088-6290, Zhang, Xinxin, Hamad, Amar A., Tillotson, Martin R., Onah, Innocent, Chen, Shuyi, Zhong, Honglin, Feng, Kuishuang and Zhang, Ning 2025. National food production cannot address nutrient gaps in African countries. Nature Food 6 (10) , pp. 930 - 935. 10.1038/s43016-025-01246-4

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Abstract

This study quantifies nine key nutrient gaps by comparing national demand and domestic production in each of Africa’s 54 countries. While different countries exhibited varying degrees of nutrient gaps for different nutrients, all countries were deficient in at least one nutrient, with eight being deficient in all nutrients. Based on current agricultural productivity, only seven African nations would be able to satisfy their nutrient gaps through production expansion given water and land constraints.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Earth and Environmental Sciences
Publisher:	Nature Research
ISSN:	2662-1355
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	11 November 2025
Date of Acceptance:	12 September 2025
Last Modified:	05 Aug 2026 03:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/182014

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