Africa Crucial to Meeting World Food Needs, WFP’s Sheeran Says
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Global food demand will outpace supplies by 2050 without substantial gains in crop production by African farmers, said Josette Sheeran, the executive director of the World Food Program.
“The world will not be able to feed itself by the year 2050 without the African farmer,” Sheeran said in an interview in Washington. The Rome-based agency, part of the United Nations, is the world’s largest distributor of humanitarian food aid.