International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called on African countries to make agriculture its priority stating that this would raise the much needed foreign exchange currently used to import food that should be grown in Africa.
The ILO, which observed that Africa has been neglected by governments, international development lenders and policy advisers alike, noted that this has translated to a high cost of food importation.
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