Volume 21 Number 4

The term ‘sustainable development’ has become a global buzz phrase to describe ‘a pattern of economic growth in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come’.

The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation – agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 as an affirmation of the United Nations’ commitment to the full implementation of Agenda 21 – states that ‘Africa’s efforts to achieve sustainable development have been hindered by conflicts, insufficient investment, limited market access opportunities and supply side constraints, unsustainable debt burdens, historically declining levels of official development assistance and the impact of HIV/AIDS’.

The feature articles of this issue of the African Security Review speak to this statement by clustering around the various challenges to sustainable development faced by countries across Africa.

Romi Sigsworth (Editor)

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