In
effort to fight hunger and feed the hungry globally, the World Bank, United
States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Gates Foundation are
working on new approach, reports PolicyMic.
The
new approach as gathered by NaijaAgroNet is to work on increased crop production in Africa through
the deployment of high-yielding crop varieties, fertilizers and pesticides; an
outlook based on the 1960s Green Revolution which averted famine in India and
Latin America then.
With
Sub-Saharan Africa as one of the main focus, the Green Revolution is of
hegemony ideology over the agricultural development, having the notion that
farmers' returns will automatically guarantee their food security.
The
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) in Rome, Ertharin
Cousin said the project will bring companies to buy goods from smallholders in
order for the deal to be beneficial to the smallholders. Read more
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