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Agri news around the world: Obama calls for more investment in farming in Africa

US President Barack Obama, wrapping up a visit to the continent of his father’s birth, toured an Ethiopian factory making baby food to show how investment in farming can cut hunger and stunting.

Child stunting has fallen by up to one-third over the past few years in African countries targeted by the US government’s global hunger initiative, Feed the Future, a report released last week said.

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