{"id":7988,"date":"2020-02-07T10:26:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T07:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7988"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","slug":"africa-should-set-its-sights-on-feeding-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/07\/africa-should-set-its-sights-on-feeding-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Should Set Its Sights On Feeding The World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the world population expected to swell by two billion people over the next three decades, Africa has an opportunity to step up and become a major global food production hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the time being, Africa remains a net importer of food, despite its vast tracts of underutilised land and other enviable natural resources. Its reliance on food imports weighs on the continent\u2019s current account and spells a missed economic opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> But with the right policies, technologies and infrastructure in place, Africa certainly has the potential to first meet its own food requirements, and then exceed them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/sponsored\/Africa-should-set-its-sights-on-feeding-the-world\/3847448-5443608-131vyrkz\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the world population expected to swell by two billion people over the next three decades, Africa has an opportunity to step up and become a major global food production&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}