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Note to WTO, IMF, World Bank: Africa is Not Your Buffet Table

Note to WTO, IMF, World Bank: Africa is Not Your Buffet Table

“At the time of decolonization in the 1960s, Africa was not just self-sufficient in food but was actually a net food exporter, its exports averaging 1.3 million tons a year between 1966-70,” Walden Bello reports in his guerrillanews.com article, “Destroying African Agriculture.
“Today, the continent imports 25% of its food, with almost every country being a [...]