Africa: What It Will Take to Feed Africa - And the World - In the Coming Decades

In addition to rising food prices, the war in Ukraine has"increased food insecurity" in Africa, said Yade, adding that"weak local infrastructure" and"the lowest levels of [agricultural] productivity" only make matters worse.

But"there's no such thing as food security in a land where the soil is degraded... or where the crops are [not yet adapted] to climate change," Fowler warned."Unless we begin to start building the soils and adapting the crops, we're going to run into real trouble." Fowler said that in continuing to support Africa's food systems, the US government is looking to build food systems"in a sustainable way" that is going to be resilient to climate change. It is now working with the AU and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on an initiative to identify traditional indigenous crops that offer the most nutritional value--and that can grow in a climate-changed world.

Policies will also need to be"holistic," he added, in that they will need to tackle agricultural issues alongside trade, infrastructure, and even governance challenges--for example, land tenure policies."We will not be able to feed" the African population"if we do not think holistically," Mayaki said.

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