Moses Hategeka

Why Africa Rising is a Tall Order Published on 25th June 2019 Why is Africa, home to sixty percent of the world’s remaining arable land, vast water sources and agro-ecological zones, still food-insecure and net food importer? Africa’s annual food import bill of 35.00 USD billion, which is expected to reach 110.00 USD billion by 2025, is extremely worrying.

By Moses Hategeka “Our son, our farms’ soil fertility has for years been drastically declining and so are our farms yields and thus we are poor, food insecure and unable to feed our families well.” We have no collateral to access credit to enable us, purchase fertilisers, inputs, and agricultural equipment like walking tractors for use in tilling our lands.

A few years ago, I wrote an article titled ‘Universities/varsity curricula must be practical’ that was published in, The Herald, Zimbabwe’s most popular and biggest newspaper. It was also republished in various other newspapers and magazines in other African countries.