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The next food shock is coming: Investing in Africa’s young farmers is the answer
African leaders have an opportunity to come together to collectively commit to invest in our rural areas, and the young people who live there, at the scale and ambition this moment demands.
The disruption of the Strait of Hormuz reaches further than most headlines suggest. As crude oil pushed past $100 a barrel for the first time in four years, and urea prices rose by more than a quarter within days of the conflict in Iran, the immediate concern in most capitals was energy, security and inflation.
In Africa, the calculation is different. Nearly a third of the world’s traded fertiliser passes through that narrow strip of water, and the sharpest agricultural consequences are projected to arrive in the second half of this year, when farmers across our continent will be making planting decisions for the season ahead.
