Million Belay

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Dr Million Belay is the General Coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA).

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The promotion of monocultures is hurting the production of much more nutritious and climate-resistant traditional crops.

A farmer gathers arid corn crops on his farm in Kwale January 27, 2009. Kenya has scrapped import duty on maize to alleviate food shortages after drought cut production of the staple, the finance minister said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Joseph Okanga (KENYA)

Efforts to impose industrial agriculture on African countries threaten the sustainability of African food production.

Farmer Nzyava, 49, works on her land in Katwa, near Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on October 5, 2019 [File: Reuters/Zohra Bensemra]

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