Africa can produce enough food for its growing population - estimated to more than double to 2.5 billion people in 30 years - and dramatically reduce its more than $35-billion import food bill. But at the moment, heavy reliance on food imports is threatening the continent's food security.
Africa can produce enough food for its growing population, estimated to more than double to 2.5 billion persons in 30 years, dramatically reduce its $>35 billion import food bill , utilise precious foreign currency saved for socioeconomic development and increase foreign currency earnings from trade. But its heavy reliance on food imports is detrimental to food security, especially at a time of acute crisis exacerbated by Covid-19 and war in Eastern Europe.
Presently, smallholder farmer yields, remain low and unpredictable - about 20-30% of possible yields for key crops like cassava, maize, rice, soybean, cocoa, oil palm, rubber, coffee and cotton. The reason for low and volatile yields vary, but common factors include poor yielding seeds, poor farming practices, a lack of mechanisation, a lack of financing solutions and an over-reliance on increasingly erratic rains.
Maybe the inhabitants should stop having kids they cannot look after?
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