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How technology can be used to leapfrog Africa's agriculture

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

Africa is at a crossroads on food security. The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra) is reporting that close to 70 per cent of the population is involved in agriculture as smallholder farmers working on parcels of land that are, on average, less than 2 hectares.

Given those statistics, the importance of agriculture at the heart of conversations on the journey of Africa economy cannot be overemphasised.

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