Food Systems in Africa
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Washington, DC: World Bank and Agence francaise de developpement
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Food for cities in Africa is changing under the triple effect of growth demography, urbanization and transformations in agricultural production and trade. These changes create risks: African cities increasingly face the challenges of undernutrition and malnutrition. But they also generate new opportunities: the food economy is the continent’s main source of employment and will remain so in the near future, both to ensure agricultural production, agro-food processing and product distribution. At the center of this economy are the intermediaries market, which link producers and consumers, and whose ineffectiveness explains that about a third of the production evaporates in food losses.
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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, AGRICULTURAL TRADE, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION, URBANIZATION, DEMOGRAPHICS, AGRO-FOOD PROCESSING, EMPLOYMENT