also on the show, could technology help africa grasp its agricultural potential? i will be speaking to the big boss of a company helping to spread two spread farming across that vast continent. wherever you are joining across that vast continent. wherever you arejoining me from around the world, a big hello and warm to the showstopping russia s invasion of ukraine has devastated the population, leaving tens of thousands feared dead and millions displaced, destroying lives and uprooting the very fabric of that country. and at the heart of the ukrainian economy is agriculture, and in particular, growing crops, a nation known as the breadbasket of europe, disrupting that production that production is having a dramatic effect on the global food supply, having a dramatic effect on the globalfood supply, sending global food supply, sending prices globalfood supply, sending prices through the roof. the result is some of the world s poorest countries are now paying more money for les
It’s often necessary to remind ourselves of a truism, just because we often don’t have to think about it. One of the more obvious is that food does not grow itself.
in the farming processes, and we buy from them as well. find we buy from them as well. and let me ask we buy from them as well. and let me ask you we buy from them as well. and let me ask you this, we buy from them as well. and let me ask you this, because you are clearly a very intelligent young man, we know, you went to university in ghana, and you did a course at stanford university in california at their business school. many of the farmers you work with i imagine won t have had the benefit of that kind of education. i am wondering, do you find it hard to persuade them that you and your colleagues are on their side? farmers don t need a lot of persuasion, they need long term allies, and in most cases they already have the solution. they know what has to be done to change their lives, to produce food and make more money. they need allies that can help them to actually make it happen. that is why it is extremely important for us to have local solutions, local champions that ar