African Agriculture
African Development Bank Invests More than $1-Billion in Mozambique
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Tech is Essential in Developing a Flourishing Agriculture Sector in Africa
Sourced from Getty Images. Africa should be in a great position to feed itself and play a significant role in feeding about nine billion people by 2050. For this to be realised, however, significant reforms have to be made to leverage the current standing optimally. The World Economic Forum reports that the African continent has 65% of the uncultivated arable land left in the world and creates about 60% of the continent’s employment. Africa boasts a wide diversity of agro-ecological zones, heavy rain-forest vegetation with bi-annual rainfall to relatively sparse, dry and arid vegetation with low uni-modal rainfall is positioned to be a World’s supplier of Agricultural produce. With these factors at play, it is difficult to find that Africa is still stuck with the burden of being a net food...
