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Africa is the world's breadbasket—or should be. It has vast arable land, grows a wide variety of crops and has vast irrigation potential with seven major rivers. Yet, Africa imported $43 billion worth of food items in 2019. Digital technologies … are eliminating the traditional inefficiencies of smallholder food production and helping to close the yield gap.

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20211015 Thomson Reuters Foundation Aloysius Uche Ordu

Africa is the world’s breadbasket—or should be. It has vast arable land, grows a wide variety of crops and has vast irrigation potential with