The African Development Bank (AfDB) has called on global partners to join hands to lift one billion people worldwide out of hunger.
It said it was leading the way by investing US$24 billion in African agriculture over the next 10 years in the largest such effort ever.
“We are not winning the war against global hunger,” Bank President Akinwumi Adesina told an agriculture conference at Purdue University in Indianapolis.
“We must not get carried away,” he added, referring to statistics showing a decline in the global population living on less than two dollars per day.
In reality, the number of hungry people in the world had increased from 777 million in 2015 to 815 million in 2016, he said citing the latest World Food Security and Nutrition data.
Adesina told the audience that included researchers, implementing organizations, business leaders, policymakers and donors that simple technical and scientific methods were already making a whole…
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