What if we converted to agriculture?
The keys to get there
Women agricultural workers in a rice field in Senegal.
Getty Images / Christian Aslund
By: Kpénahi Traoré Follow
2 min
According to the latest edition of the OECD and FAO Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030, sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest available quantities per capita of agricultural products relating to fruits and vegetables.
This publication also indicates that in sub-Saharan Africa, 36% of funding for agriculture comes from donors and 25% of this funding goes to infrastructure (roads, irrigation systems, and others ...), while the lack of Financing is one of the major obstacles preventing the development of a farming business.
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Agriculture, this lever of economic transformation in Africa is attracting more and more people, especially young people.
What do you need to know before getting into this field?
We talk about it in So we say what!
Guest: Richard Mohamed Moné,
agricultural engineer and farmer in Burkina Faso.
Report:
Charles Joël in Yaoundé.
Initiative of the week:
The Nature To Go project of two young Togolese, Elia Kokui Fiadjoe and Cica Charlotte Nougnito.
They have embarked on greenhouse and soil-less cultivation by specializing in the cultivation of products which are generally imported into their country.
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