African farmers receive nine times less investment
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Maghreb Emergent
Ibrahim A. Mayaki, the African Union’s special envoy for food systems, says African farmers receive nine times less investment. At the Paris Peace Forum, he also stressed that producers, often women, remain the main investors in their own farming activities, according to Maghreb Emergent.
An African farmer receives on average nine times less investment than a farmer elsewhere in the world, according to Ibrahim A. Mayaki, the African Union’s special envoy for food systems, at the Paris Peace Forum.
Ibrahim A. Mayaki believes producers should be more involved in designing agricultural programmes. He stressed that African farmers, particularly women, invest their savings, labour and sometimes livestock to finance each farming season.
The former Nigerien prime minister also highlighted the gap between the continent’s needs in terms of nutrition and the fight against poverty and the available funding. He welcomed the World Bank’s AgriConnect programme, which plans to double commitments to African agriculture.
