Adding a dollar a day to buy mayflower for 2. 00. Children who are going to school hungry. We cant even feed them. Breakfast. Wheat remains scarce around the world, but could locally source to crop alternatives, plug the deficit in africa and reduce the reliance on food imports. Also coming up following mollys pivot from the west to russia, we speak to Germanys Foreign Ministry on the future of the war. And you had asked in this a hell, which is still forcing civilians from their homes. Refugees from beginning also crossing over into ghana, forcing their hosts to wake up to a security threat, inching ever closer. Ah, im told me a lot about welcome to the program. With over 60 percent of the worlds uncultivated, arable land, africa should not be important. Most of its grain right. 10 years ago, a walled bank report said african farmers can potentially grow enough food to feed the continent and avert future food crisis. Yet to day that potential is still far from being reached. In fact, the u. N. Is wanting that a devastating drought in the horn of africa could worsen as a 5th consecutive rainy season is predicted to fail, or that leaves 22000000 people at risk of starvation. Even in some agricultural hobbs, dw corresponded edith kamani visited farmers in kenyas bread basket to see how their coping with the emerging shocks. This was supposed to be a bumper, have asked for jonathan key bet. But things could not have gone worse for the king and farmer. First, the rains failed to come in much than an infestation of army ones attacked his crop. And most recently a Violent Storm flattened his entire harvest will not be having anything to it because it is blair, this from was producing a lets the air. It didnt 15 preteen bath. Now am predicting rebel get that he had to fail both. Now you see that gap at double that on 10 bucks, that to and will be a serious, a cbs and a city us problem. Can you ranks as one of the countries be the highest Food Insecurity in the world as the green fed economy . The country relies almost entirely on produce from small scale farmers like jonathan, who simply cant keep up. We have been using air and since mode of doing for me, we are not good then may be more in later men, or now we can do as a manageable whistle family on a neighboring farm. Some santa lam gets to tilling his land. The high cost of fuel has meant he can no longer afford to hire tractor. Its a lot of work with little return. He takes me to see this. He has harvest. Its not promising to indian beans. That means mother one father to another black fear is the only one i was 3. This year. The 65 year old is now at risk of poverty, as even his dairy business is threatened by the scarce animal feet. The impact of whats happening on the farms can really be felt in informal settlements. Right . Came the city. The price of means flaw with the staple in the country is now retailing for close to 2. 00. But for a population living in extreme poverty, that can feel like a death sentence. And that was made evident in this viral video, showing a shoppers visceral reaction at a supermarket to the increased food prices on the streets. The view with similar was you cant expect someone owning a dollar a day to buy mayflower for 2. 00. Children who are going to school hungry. We cant even feed them. Breakfast. Food security expert and minor has been critical of african governments in ability to create crop and diet diversity has suggestion, focus on climate resilient and nature driven farming. We need to harness our resources are already we have several huge dems that have been built, but also putting money in there. Investing in small initial facilities was the vision of what our building of what our fans would make. A huge difference in terms of Food Production in kenya, back in the rift valley. Jonathan is already rolling out his next plans saga him a more drought resistant crop with a ready market. Hes hopeful hell bounce back when the rains come on the other side of the continent seeking crop alternatives could also be away forward. As wheat remains in short, supply, senegal by half of its wheat from russia and 6 percent from ukraine. But the ongoing war has hampered those imports and sent prices up. Its prompted a push in the west african nation for the adoption of more locally source serials. In this region of western senegal, most farmers cultivate millet, a local high protein grain eaten for breakfast and supper. Traditionally, farmers have kept the grain for domestic use, but now there is a push to expand production in a way that will benefit local economies and reduce reliance on wheat, regional agricultural associations and a local n g o are providing training and equipment to farmers like megan may sar, they have also encouraged him to switch to organic farming. Mom. Busy can you younger, im seeing all the advantages before we were using chemical fertilizers, but its expensive. And now i also know that its toxic. And with the new method, there are higher yields and fewer expenses than organic fertilizers last longer in the ground. And go, and even when you have 2 types of crops, its efficient for both. So in the improved yield has enabled the gung need to better provide for his family. The mill it sold by farmers like him is bought by bakeries and other businesses in the community, including buy entrepreneurs such as r, y d, up. She is now using locally sourced millet and may is to make her fritters rather than imported wheat, movable and im up, im up for her from. I couldnt go back. Wrinkled clients have started to appreciate the 1000000 fritters ovens of our lives will time known for melodic to the will new. Its our tradition. Im with them. Millison mays, i replaceable head a lot in, is also easier to digest than wheat flour. But one big question is whether people in cities and other parts of senegal would also be happy to switch from week to cereals such as millet many single leaves prefer wheat, baguettes of the type sold in this bakery. The government is encouraging bakers to use local cereals because as the price of wheat rises, so to do the subsidies that they pay, this bakery is making gradual changes. But convincing customers here remains a challenge with bonsai among them from off. I think theres still a lack of information were trying to sensitize people to say its good for them. Is it . And every time we explain this, it could be on the consumption. Increased calm is big off from one. When i started a mock on it represented only 2 to 3 percent of the total sales will be for example, today its a 20 percent for my objective is to reach 50 percent of sales for bread made with local serial work. Were not going where i think im perform because were bundled faren locally, shifting away from weed to decrease food dependency is something bakers are determined to do even beyond synagogue representatives from 8 other countries in west africa recently came to dakar for the launch of a confederation of west african bakeries of a blue la cruz because with the crisis in ukraine, the we thought theres a need to find alternative solutions today, bringing bakers from west africa as a 1st year and decor every new bully. When is a need for synergy . We want west africa to wake up if we want to make commercial exchanges. Luckily, if i want banana flower for synagogue. If it is, i can import it from the ivory coast and if an ivory and wants millet flower. He will import it from niger or synagogue, and thats the purpose, anybody. And he will actually, in the meanwhile, and with a new new shields. And he got his off his other whether the use of local serials will reach its full potential remains to be seen. Eating habits are slow to change. The hope is that at some point the country will be able to reduce its reliance on imported wheat. Lets bring in debbie sierra bow, who is a visiting Research Fellow at the center for environmental policy at the Imperial College london. Welcome to the program. Now as we just heard from our report from an dot com, people love their week by get now at a time when Food Security is under threat, should africans consider adapting their tastes and the taste and opt for other available food crops. Thank you very much. So me, thank you for having. Well, i mean diets of have evolved over time dias will always continue to evolve into the future. So the senegalese who have a particular who have a quite a so i guess will alter their taste into the future. So its, its a moot question, it has to happen and it will happen whether or not its forced on us externally. Ready we demanded internally, considering africa has so much. Alba, land. Why is the continent struggling to feed itself . Oh, thats thats, thats a complicated question. However, when we think about the married of challenges that it takes 2 to be competitive, global in food and agriculture, which is of course, a 1010. 00 trillion dollar proposition. So there are a few things that i think will really doing well as a continent that we just need to double down. The 1st thing is we need to bet on ourselves. No one can want a more prosperous africa, more than africans themselves. An example is the technology for African Agriculture transformation that is aligned science with Public Policy and private entrepreneurship. Where youre bringing the very best of science from around the world, into countries aligned with national priorities, and getting entrepreneurs to grow food. The green shoots of success are beginning to show in sudan and you appear that in the next farming season will both be self sufficient in wheat specifically. And so if we can extend this, these types of programs to other countries, we will start to see this, this mushrooming of prosperity across the continent. Its not one thing, its a lot of things. Another aspect is finance. We need a lot of money to come into the agrifood sector. Last year. The i m f release 650000000000. 00 in special during rights to countries of that 33000000000. 00 was allocated to african countries. Now that 33000000000. 00 is less than what the us, japan, china, and german individually receipt. So we need more innovative finance mechanisms to ensure that we have long term lower cost financing to pack entrepreneurs. A lot of you the coming into value chains. We need to be able to back them, especially those focused on market creating innovation. These innovations that target non non consumption in value chains. And that note, what should african government be pushing for on the global stage to be able to achieve this . I think got to think on so i started with betting on ourselves and i think thats, thats where id like to african countries and african economies need to better ourselves. We have to resolve to focus on making the right choices consistently. There needs to be a limited Public Policy, national priorities, private investment, supporting private entrepreneurship. You know, you need this Public Sector enabled, private sector lead transformation of the aggregate sector. If it happens when it happens, we will see it truly prosperous africa in terms of the agrifood here of our policy specialist with a focus on environment and agriculture in africa. Thank you for speaking to us. Still in west africa, theres growing concerned that she had as violence in molly and became a fossil, and its repercussions are increasingly being felt in neighboring countries. The crisis has displaced more than 2000000 people in book in a fossil with many of them now fleeing south into gonna as the attacks continue, d, w max also visited a camp hosting the refugees close to the border. Suff. Yes, i want to go arrived in these come in, ghana, early august. The poor she is cooking will be here with me today. But at least she feels safe here. She has skipped with children and looking up as to where do you, how do i tax . I intensify and sophia says her life is send a trait back home. We are zarbara, the terrorists came to attack our community and burkina faso. They killed our husbands and burnt our houses. So we ran through the bushes to the neighboring towns where we got buses. Tagano a beetle. Was he a bit think eliza, gonna add a port . Are we looking for . So make ships comes like this one . I become in common. Authorities estimate that around 2000 people were moved here in the past year. With new arrivals almost weekly. To day their fees are waiting for water to be delivered. It is hard for fi shows to provide all the necessary eat. As the numbers keep rising, the way they run and keep even the occluded or what they had on them were the only thing that they had, even towards them, very difficult. The children, even sleep is very difficult. So does that need for us to intervene . And that is why we came as ahead of the district. Im a title works relentlessly to find basic support. Unicef and a red cross, i provide intense and medication title also tries to come to a local community as somehow uncomfortable with their fiftys settling here. Man, im it, everybody in this community is worried because we dont know exactly where they are and where they come from. Who knows where the terrorists will come from one place, id be more gunner has increased. You security presence in this region as jihad is continued to expand, the activities is porous. Borders remain as subject of concern. Not only for residents. Their biggest threats rather is chrome, but those are pretending to be civilians flee in the clutches, coming into garner and prepare in the grounds. But the comp, das who fled. Also she had a conflict with steve over the border to feed her children. Sophia goes the by d, looking for wic from surrounding farms. Would you hope that ghana will remain a peaceful refuge about a little there is not enough food for us, are enough clean water and shelter. These are all problems to us. We need support i on in the manner while it is generally see for the reducing discounts. Sophia is looking forward to returning to picking up a su with the children to leave and as the displaced book in our bay, people ponder their futures. There are similar questions about the insecurity in molly, which is the epicenter of this crisis. For a decades g, hattie groups have carried out frequent attacks, destabilizing the central and northern regions of the country. And even interventions by foreign armies have failed to put an end to the threat following a 2020 military coup in molly relations with west and partners have crumbled. The new genta embraced russia. France has withdrawn its troops after 9 years in the west african country. And the future of the Un Peacekeeping mission minima is now under threat with major true contributors, like germany, rethinking their involvement. We can now speak to catch a coil minister of state at germanys federal foreign office. Welcome to deed of the news africa miss coil good. Have you on the program now . How would you describe the relationship between germany and molly right now . Good afternoon at 1st, then we are as german government, willing to keep on supporting the peace process. Even though we have to admit that there have been some flight troubles and difficulties, especially between mineral smart and the 1000000 government. That so far the mind government has reassured now that our presence is welcome, which is definitely necessary. We need the money and government engagement to stay and help but so far is this the case and the difficulties with no smart seem to to be solved so far. We have some procedures with the rotations that seem to be working now. So hopefully we on a good way, why would you say its so important to have stability in milan to suppress that you had his threat . Well, 1st of all, its important for the people of molly so that they can live in peace and stability. But of course, it is also a question off security for all of us also for europe is money failed, failed state in our neighborhood, that with the stabilize the whole region. So it is, 1st of all, for my people that is also important for all of us. And i was in my lead turned to russia for help and its Counter Terrorism operations. And human Rights Groups have even accused both parties of committing atrocities, in particular the killing of 300. 00 civilians in the town of mora. Now is it possible to achieve your goals in molly while the Russian Wagner group is also present all we are concerned about the cooperation with the Russian Troops and about the presence. Since we know about a responsibility for the un mission, well watch this closely. And its for sure that the molly government has to be very careful not into any cooperation with the Russian Troops. Speakers. Then the decision would be a different one. And what would you say about the timeline for the presence of german troops, German Military involvement in molly . Is that ending soon or, or is that long term . Well, depends on, on the developments and money. Well hopefully then with my can reach its goal and there, and we can find some stability in the northern north of molly and we are there to protect civilians. So as long as that is necessary and will be part of the the mission. But of course, as i said, the safety of our troops needs to be secured. If that is not the case, then the mandate that the one that i gave to our troops. The also foresees the stroll partial, this withdraw if the security situation is not guaranteed any longer. Okay, miss, go out to stay with us. Well come back to you shortly. But we want to look at what a will become of local staff. If germany decides to leave as france has done, we asked molly, im translator for his views on what a german withdrawal would mean for him. And hes asked us to change his name and conceal his identity. This man who were calling guzman has worked for Foreign Forces in molly for almost 10 years. His latest job as an interpreter, has been for the German Military working with the troops out in the field. He translate local languages into english. Despite wanting us to conceal his identity, he says he does not fear reprisals. The German Military is well liked already the little zalman. In fact, the german troops are very much appreciated and go they do a job where very often representatives of the marlene state didnt venture you source. They are often in the nooks and crannies where the state is not often represented on their past. We who come with the soldiers are appreciated by the population. We need their law and saw more a pre sip ala population. Obviously, not everyone feels as warmly as, as men about the presence of german troops in molly. But he fears if they withdraw completely security especially around their base of dow could deteriorate. Less are set empirical at the moment. It is quite calm, substitute on the but it is a precarious comma that could unravel at any time, but unhealthy. So with the possible departure of the germans family, i think to day that the situation risks turning negative. Thus he does all of these lear devonie negative mom and the osman. Theres more in play than just the security of the country. If the germans go, then he will lose his job and means its supporting himself and those dependent on him. Well, if it gave on particularly so if they leave us, there is going to great a vacuum in a vacuum that takes us away from our jobs in a while. Well have difficulties to feed our families on it. If our children who and do other things as our far it will chose, sofa osman and his dependent. There is much at stake. German minister of state carter coil is still with us. And what happens to people like was the man, if germany were to pull out, do feel responsible for them will feel responsible for our partners. And the reason is that were there is the protection of the civilians. So what we just heard, that its exactly what people tell us the civil population in the north, on money around cow. They appreciate very much the presence of no smart because they know that we are there for that security. And so we would know that if we would leave them in this, my loan, then nobody could secure their security anymore. And we are trying to take here what about an option, for example, of moving german troops to another . So hell nation like in the share, is that still is that on the table . Well, we are already engaged in these year and will keep doing what we do in these year. So theres no question about ending our engagement in each year, but we cannot just move true from molly to ne, here we are doing what we have been doing and will continue it. So we are a reliable partner for new year and the my government is responsible to, to make sure that corporation with mark keeps on working so that we can stay ok, catch a coil minister of state at germanys federal foreign office. Thank you for speaking to us. Youre welcome. Ah, well, thats it for now, but be sure to check out all the stories on d. W dot com, ford slash africa are on facebook and twitter. 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