Post-coronavirus: Food security, AfCTA crucial for Africa’s recovery - AfDB
Agriculture is important not only for food security issues but also for inter-regional food integration African Development Bank Director of Macroeconomic Policy, Forecasting and Research, Hanan Morsy, has said.
Speaking during a news conference on the opening day of the African Economic Conference 2020 she said “We see this as an area that needs particular support, an area of opportunity going forward to increase inter-regional integration and to increase resilience against external shocks.”
The African Development Bank has provided much-needed financial and technical assistance to the sector, including small scale agribusinesses. In June 2020, the Bank launched the Feed Africa Response to COVID-19 (FAREC), a strategic roadmap to safeguard food security against the pandemic’s impact by supporting agriculture and creating regional food self-sufficiency.
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‘Food security, AfCTA, crucial for Africa’s post-COVID-19 recovery’
“The agriculture sector is among the most vulnerable. Agriculture is important, not only for food [and] security issues, but also for inter-regional food integration,” African Development Bank Director of Macroeconomic Policy, Forecasting and Research, Hanan Morsy, said during a news conference on the opening day of the African Economic Conference 2020.
“We see this as an area that needs particular support; an area of opportunity going forward to increase inter-regional integration and to increase resilience against external shocks,” Morsy noted.
The African Development Bank has provided the much-needed financial and technical assistance to the sector, including small scale agribusinesses. In June 2020, the bank launched the Feed Africa Response to COVID-19 (FAREC), a strategic roadmap to safeguard food security against the pandemic’s impact, by supporting agriculture and creating regional food sel