ocr: Suffering from Mainutrition. Health experts estimate thata - a person needs - to take in from 2,200t to 2,600 calories a day for proper nubrition. In many Arican countries, however, calorie intakes fall far below these levels. Because of frequent droughts, poor farming techniques, and civil unrest in Africa, even those countries that have adequate nutition cannotbe certain they will always be - able to feed their citizens in the future.