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From scarcity to scale: What Africa can learn from India's agricultural transformation

India’s agricultural transformation offers Africa lessons on building resilient food systems through policy, innovation, and investment. [Courtesy]

Food security is often framed as a question of production. Yet at its core, it is about something far more fundamental: how societies organise themselves to ensure that food remains reliably available, accessible, and affordable. In that sense, food is not only a commodity.

It is a public good, central to economic stability, social cohesion, and national resilience.

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