Agriculture is the answer to this need. The people of Mozambique need honest work with profit motive, food security, and economic growth. time and again, the answer is agriculture.
Last September all of Maputo, Mozambique shut down for 5 days. I was locked in an apartment building at the time. Food prices were too high and the population had enough of it and rioted. Mozambique is a net importer of food, not long ago they were a net exporter.
As farming has improved, so have incomes, health, and economies.
During the green revolution, which took place from the 1960s to the 1980s, improvements in staple crops including maize, wheat, and rice helped double the amount of food produced, save hundreds of millions of lives, and drive broader development throughout much of Asia and latin America.
Unfortunately, the benefits of the green revolution did not extend to Sub-Saharan Africa. over the past 25 years, as the rest of the world has doubled, tripled, and even quadrupled productivity, agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa has stagnated.
This stagnation has come at a tremendous cost. in the 1960s, Africa was a net exporter of food. today, it’s a net importer, and one in three people in Sub-Saharan Africa lives in chronic hunger.
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