The former U.N. Secretary-general Kofi Annan has called on the world to provide funding to kick start a new African green revolution to combat food shortages on the continent.
Annan said urgent action was needed to prevent the worsening crisis faced by many due to dramatic increases in food prices, his call comes as many countries are facing food riots triggered by inflation.
"A genuinely African green revolution could lead to a doubling or tripling of food production," he told the BBC.
Calling for an end to the continent's reliance on food imports, he said to the BBC's World Today programme, "If you help them [farmers] all along the value-chain, they are more likely, not only to improve production, but to sustain it."
However South African farmer and political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, told the BBC the real problem in Africa was land ownership.
Former U.N. head Kofi Annan has called for an African "green revolution". Photo: Kofi Annan. Credit: Agencia Brasil
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