Experts: Linking farmers to markets critical for Africa's rural development
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 17:30
in Mathematics & Economics
As a food crisis unfolds in West Africa's Sahel region, some of the world's leading experts in agriculture markets say the time is ripe to confront the "substantial inefficiencies" in trade policy, transportation, information services, credit, crop storage and other market challenges that leave Africans particularly vulnerable to food-related problems.