Daily Monitor wrote an article about the importance of agricultural production in Africa as it braces to be hit by the spread of COVID-19. Africa is not yet advanced in order to facilitate the flow of many essential needs, except with regard to the most important – food. The continent has sixty percent of global arable land and nine percent of global freshwater. IFPRI states that irrigation has the potential to boost Africa’s agricultural production by fifty percent, but current food production on the continent is almost entirely rainfed.
Africa’s securest defense against crisis is dependable agricultural production (Daily Monitor)
April 09, 2020