Africa must diversify its food sources to reduce dependency

Africa dependency for supply of crucial needs like food must be changed through diversification of sources and investing in its own regional specialization for production of goods and services. The future of Africa should be where the EAC produces this, while ECOWAS produces that and SADC produces… and so on and so forth, the regions must specialize and safety…

Africa dependency for supply of crucial needs like food must be changed through diversification of sources and investing in its own regional specialization for production of goods and services.

The future of Africa should be where the EAC produces this, while ECOWAS produces that and SADC produces…and so on and so forth, the regions must specialize and safety measures put in place to secure production and trade routes to protect against disruptions.

Global value chains have increased inter-connectivity and reliance on each other at a global scale, a reality that is been reversed by trade wars, actual wars pandemic threats and resulting friend shoring.

While the world is still very interconnected and value chains of the goods and services we consume web in and out of multiple countries, trade wars like United States and China, and actual wars like Russia and Ukraine are now deglobalizing the world village.

While there are tremendous benefits in the global interconnectivity, the taking of sides and disruptions by wars places ever strenuous circumstances on dependent countries, and that is everyone.

Experts now say, the real task is harnessing the benefits of interconnection while at the same time, mitigate the risks of dependency. None knows …

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