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Invasive alien species may cost African agricultural sector $3 66 trillion per year

 E-Mail Invasive alien species - harmful species introduced by human activity to an area in which they are not native - are estimated to cost the African agricultural sector $3.66 trillion per year - approximately 1.5 times the gross domestic product of all African countries combined. The findings are published in the open access journal CABI Agriculture and Bioscience. A team of researchers from CABI, in Ghana, Kenya, the UK and Switzerland, estimate that the average cost of invasive alien species to the agricultural sector of each African country is $76.3 billion per year. However, substantial variation exists between countries with costs of $1 trillion in Nigeria, $317 billion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, $248 billion in Niger and $229 billion in South Africa. The combined costs for Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau are estimated to be $82 million per year. Economic losses caused by invasive alien species were found to exceed the gross domestic produc

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