Strong case made for deepening agro-industrial value chains in Central Africa | United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Yaounde, 19 December 2020 (ECA) – The alarmingly high rates of food importation in Central Africa should be a phenomenon of the past, economists and agriculturalists argued Thursday. This, because all countries of the subregion are abundantly blessed with arable land and ecological zones favorable for animal protein production, necessary for developing strong agricultural value chains that should bring greater prosperity to the subregion in the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The assertion came out of an online session to review of a scoping study by the Subregi...