The EU and Africa must join efforts to reach the sustainable development goal of zero hunger and address the challenges of nutrition and food security. Progressive African organisations such as AGRA are ready to make that happen.

A cocoa pricing agreement designed to protect farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana from destitution is being circumvented by multinationals, the main buyers of cocoa beans.

The year 2020 was when the world stopped — and along with it, the industries that supported our previously unceasing motions stopped too as a result of largescale lockdowns and a prolonged halt to international travel.

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is home to more than 950 million people; the region's population size is projected to reach 2.1 billion by 2050, thus about 22 percent of the world's entire population.

EU agricultural production is dominated by livestock products (including dairy), grains, vegetables, wine, fruits, and sugar.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a brief report last week that: “Zimbabwe’s corn (maize) crop for the 2021/22 marketing year (MY) is estimated at 2.7 million tons, an increase of almost 200 percent from the 907,628 tons of maize produced in the 2020/21 MY.”