walkie-talkie, readying to defend themselves and their country against violence they hope never comes. lynda kinkade, cnn. well, the war in ukraine has sent commodity prices soaring, and that has put africa in a very tough position. to head off a food crisis, the african development bank is trying to raise $1 billion to ramp up agriculture production there. the plan would focus on quickly boosting wheat, corn, rice, as well as soybean output. if we do not take immediate action, we re going to actually have a situation that we may have a looming food crisis in africa as a result of this war. we will be raising $1 billion to help to launch this emergency food production plan, and the plan is to be able to produce roughly 30 million metric tons