Scientists have recommended that the government must deliberately assist small-scale farmers to access markets to sell their produce in order to enhance the need to produce more.
The report, Drivers of Household Food Availability in Sub-Saharan Africa, published in this month's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences website, said that while a lot has been done to help increase food production, incomes and nutritional matters could best be addressed by helping the poor to sell the little they have.
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