Africa: Green Revolution Could Help Continent to Feed Itself, Says Kofi Annan

Johannesburg — WHILE farmers around the world are enjoying a demand-driven price bonanza, African farmers are the victims of a nearly 50% increase in the price of staple foods over the past year.

In his keynote address on Tuesday at the start of the academic year at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, Nobel Prize winner and former United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan drew attention to the fact that food production in Africa has fallen by 12% since 1980 and that the region was the only one in the world where per-capita food output was in decline.

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