Browsing: Russia Ukraine war impact on Africa food system

• The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says food production across Africa is stubbornly low.
• Households across Sub-Saharan Africa spend roughly 23% of their total income on food.
• The Collapse of the Black Sea Initiative, the bombing of an ammonia pipeline, and a key dam in Ukraine spell doom for Africa’s food production systems.

Reducing hunger and increasing food production in a persistently low-income environment will be one of Africa’s biggest problems in the next ten years, a new report by FAO says.

The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2023-2032 report attributes the challenge to increasingly volatile weather patterns due to climate change. At the moment, food production in many countries across Africa is stubbornly low.

During the period under focus, the report predicts that imports into the region will surge. And this will negatively impact the economic welfare of the continent’s 1.1 billion people.

Households across SSA spend roughly 23 per cent …