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Cereals, fertilizers, energy: how to avoid famine in Africa?
Audio 48:30
A maize field in South Africa (illustrative image).
Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
By: Bruno Faure Follow
2 mins
Since February 24, 2022, the planet has been living to the rhythm of the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Shaken markets, starting with that of cereals, wheat in particular, essential for making bread.
The effects are powerful and devastating on African economies, already weakened by Covid-19, and on populations threatened by a new major food crisis.
Added to this are the cost of freight, energy prices and global inflation.
And the question of fertilizers, which are just as essential for agricultural production.
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The problem of food security and supply is therefore resurfacing in Africa, and with it, that of the continent's dependence on major producing countries.
How to restore food sovereignty?
Éco d'ici, Éco d'ailleurs gives the floor to experts.
Our guests :
-
Thierry Pouch,
chief economist at the Chambers of Agriculture in France, specialist in agricultural and food issues, researcher at the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, author of “
The pandemic and agriculture.
A virus, accelerating mutations
” (France Agricole Editions)
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Karima Bounemra Ben Soltane,
Director of
IDEP (African Institute for Economic Development and Planning)
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Issaka Ouandaogo,
head of
the Influencing Unit at Oxfam Burkina Faso.
In the second part of the program,
we are interested in the consequences of this crisis in the countries of the Maghreb and the Middle East.
From Mauritania to Iraq via Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon or the countries of the Persian Gulf, they are experiencing the same economic crisis, but of very different intensities.
The high inflation linked to the prices of raw materials is a difficulty for many families.
Other countries are more resistant to the consequences of the war in Ukraine, thanks to the windfalls of oil and gas.
Algeria, in particular, is courted by several European countries such as Italy, Spain or France.
Should we fear famines, food riots?
New Arab Springs?
What are the possible remedies?
Our guest:
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Alexandre Kateb,
economist specializing in emerging markets, professor at Sciences Po Paris, founder of the strategic consulting firm
The Multipolarity Report
, author of "
Arab economies on the move - A new development model for the MENA region
" (Editions de Boeck ).
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