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Most people would look at the paradisiacal coast of Bahia in northeastern Brazil and think of beachy holidays and the place where F1 star driver Lewis Hamilton chose to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2023.
El Niño: Malawi’s harvest of maize – its staple food – may fall by 22.5% this year
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Maize is the preferred staple of most of southern Africa. In Malawi it supplies two-thirds of national calorie intake. Nine out of 10 farming households produce maize and devote over 70% of their land to growing it.
Zimbabwe’s economy is still dominated by agriculture, with a large part of the population living from agriculture.
60% of Africa’s food is based on wheat, rice and maize – the continent’s crop treasure trove is being neglected
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African countries have become reliant on a few food items.
Is Planet Earth Full?
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Overpopulation is a dirty word.
Is Africa still rising?
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Recent evidence has undermined the narrative of ‘Africa Rising’, as the World Bank predicts a growth deceleration in the continent from 3.6% to 2.5%. One driver of such disappointing growth is sluggish productivity growth. In fact, productivity growth has been on a downward trend since the mid-2010s (see here). How can countries in the region boost their productivity?
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