Africa’s so-called green revolution means that many traditional crops are being replaced by intensive monocultures, without delivering the reduction in hunger it had promised. A meeting of African Union leaders in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2014 committed to ‘ending hunger’ by 2025. As in 1960s India, the idea is to boost local production with a ‘green revolution’. Since 2006, this approach has also had the backing of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) as part of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Yet a ‘green revolution’, based on (...)

Source: The North Africa Journal July 09, 2022 22:35 UTC