As World’s Priorities Shift, African Leaders Focus on Food Sovereignty

Russia’s war with Ukraine and the worldwide shift toward national priorities has pushed African leaders to focus on food self-sufficiency, the head of a United Nations’ body said.

From increased wheat production in Ethiopia and rice output in West Africa continental leaders are more alive to the threat posed by global trade disruptions than they were previously, said Alvaro Lario, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.