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Food Systems in Africa

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  • Gaelle Balineau
  • Arthur Bauer
  • Martin Kessler
  • Nicole Madariaga

Abstract

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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  • Gaelle Balineau & Arthur Bauer & Martin Kessler & Nicole Madariaga, 2021. "Food Systems in Africa," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 34919.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:34919
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