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Title:Grain, fish money: financing Africa's green and blue revolutions: Africa Progress Report 2014
Author:Watkins, Kevin
Year:2014
Pages:186
Language:English
City of publisher:Geneva
Publisher:Africa Progress Panel
ISBN:9782970082125
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:agricultural development
economic development
food security
natural resources
External link:https://reliefweb.int/report/world/africa-progress-report-2014-grain-fish-money-financing-africa-s-green-and-blue
Abstract:Africa is a rich continent. Some of those riches - especially oil, gas and minerals - have driven rapid economic growth over the past decade. The ultimate measure of progress, however, is the wellbeing of people - and Africa's recent growth has not done nearly as much as it should to reduce poverty and hunger, or improve health and education. To sustain growth that improves the lives of all Africans, the continent needs an economic transformation that taps into Africa's other riches: its fertile land, its extensive fisheries and forests, and the energy and ingenuity of its people. The Africa Progress Report 2014 describes what such a transformation would look like, and how Africa can get there. Agriculture must be at the heart that transformation. Most Africans, including the vast majority of Africa's poor, continue to live and work in rural areas, principally as smallholder farmers. In the absence of a flourishing agricultural sector, the majority of Africans will be cut adrift from the rising tide of prosperity.To achieve such a transformation, Africa will need to overcome three major obstacles: a lack of access to formal financial services, the weakness of the continent's infrastructure and the lack of funds for public investment. The Africa Progress Report 2014 describes how African governments and their international partners can cooperate to remove those obstacles - and enable all Africans to benefit from their continent's extraordinary wealth.
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