Population and food supply: the challenge for Africa

Africa now needs 14 million tonnes more grain each year than it is producing. With the population growing at three percent per year and agricultural production increasing by only two percent, that shortfall will reach 50 million tonnes by 2000. How...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: News Item
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1995
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/47068
Description
Summary:Africa now needs 14 million tonnes more grain each year than it is producing. With the population growing at three percent per year and agricultural production increasing by only two percent, that shortfall will reach 50 million tonnes by 2000. How...