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African Development Bank President: Africa Should Be World’s Breadbasket
9 August 2018
FROM EIR DAILY ALERT EIRNS—Addressing the 2018 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting in Washington, attended by over 1,600 agricultural and applied economists from around the world, African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina said Aug. 5 that Africa should be the breadbasket of the world, and questioned why Africa should be spending $35 billion a year to import food.
Adesina said, addressing the 2018 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, reported the bank’s website.
he stated, not referring to phony “green” environmentalism, but the green revolution that raises productivity and would make Africa food secure. Adesina, who was the 2017 World Food Prize winner, is advocating the creation of staple crops processing zones across Africa (SCPZs): vast areas within rural areas, set aside and managed for agribusiness and food manufacturing industries and other agro-allied industries, made possible with the right policies and infrastructure.
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