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Africa and Food Security: Putting People Ahead of Profit

Sep 4th, 2014 | By
Smallholder farmer in East Africa [photo credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT]

By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org Africa is a rich continent, where the land and its people have been plundered for centuries.  Despite pockets of economic growth and improved living standards, most news from here is of conflict, poverty, environmental degradation and corruption. And it is growing. There are currently more than 1 billion people in Africa. 
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