From Famine to Feast

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Published: July 21, 2007

Kenyan Rice Farmers  | read this item

With the continent currently importing up to 50 per cent of its food, the bread basket strategy aims to move African farmers away from growing cash crops which most people don’t eat, like cocoa, tea and coffee, and towards farming staple foods such as rice, sweet potatoes, cassava, maize, and beans.