🚁 Heli view: African agriculture is the future... and always will be?

Big guns have been brought to bear in Africa’s agricultural transition – but so far failed to supercharge the sector. 

The latest example: A $61 billion African Development Bank plan to “industrialise African food systems” has run into opposition this month. 

• Civil society groups called the plan a “threat to small-scale farmers”. 

• They accuse the bank of pushing towards agro-industrialisation.

• This in turn would “increase dependency on multinational corporations”.