Investing in smallholders and food security in Africa: What do small-scale producers themselves have to say? | Questions de développement ... | Scoop.it

African agriculture faces the challenges of feeding a growing population, eradicating poverty and food insecurity, responding to the climate crisis and ensuring environmental sustainability. To address these challenges investment is needed to reinforce local food systems and to enhance smallholders’ food production, strengthen their resilience, increase their revenues and support their own investments – which constitute the bulk of all thosemade. Key questions are: what production systems and products to support? Which markets to target? Who should benefit?