Higher Food Prices: A Blessing in Disguise For Africa?

Denise Wolter

No 66, OECD Development Centre Policy Insights from OECD, Development Centre

Abstract: Higher food prices are likely to stay; emergency aid can only be a short-term solution. Making African agriculture a profitable business could turn a food-price curse into a blessing. African governments and donors should promote the commercialisation of food crops.

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Date: 2008-05

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