Irony of $30b mobilised for agribusiness as 282m Africans starve
A woman heading to her farm Lubango in Angola. The war in Ukraine has roundly been blamed for the food shortages being witnessed in the world, and especially Africa. PHOTO | OSVALDO SILVA | AFP
The war in Ukraine has roundly been blamed for the food shortages being witnessed in the world, and especially Africa. Energy, fertiliser and food costs have risen by between 40 percent and 300 percent since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
According to data from the African Development Bank, Africa imports more than 100 million tonnes of food annually, valued at about $75 billion, and the continent now finds itself in a lurch, as 30 million tonnes of the imports come from the warring Russia and Ukraine.
