As much as 80 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. However, more than half of the world’s unused fertile land is in Africa, and 200 million people on the continent are chronically hungry. Think Africa Press asked a range of experts to answer the question: “What needs to be done to help African agriculture develop?”


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