Africa needs a Green Revolution: a major
transformation of the agricultural sector. The benefits of enabling this are
multiple. Not only can this contribute to addressing the fuel deficit by offering
a means to diversify and localize the production of fuel. It will also enhance
food security and offers a wide range of livelihood opportunities to move poor
subsistence-based farmers and their families out of poverty and into greater
economic security. Here too, then, there is a need for a radical re-think:
looking at agriculture as a potentially profitable business opportunity, not
simply as an aid or development challenge that is only oriented to poverty
mitigation.
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