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publié dans Ressources le 3 juin 2020

Article – A regional response to help avoid rice shortages in West Africa

Developing Economics

Politique agricole et rurale nationaleRizAfrique de l’OuestAnalyse, synthèse

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As the COVID-19 pandemic reaches African shores, countries are grappling with questions of food security. This seems to confirm a longstanding concern among many countries to reduce their reliance on food imports. Take the example of rice in West Africa. This external reliance is what led ECOWAS countries to agree to a ‘Rice Offensive’ in 2014, to boost production in the region.

As COVID-19 threatens rice imports from Asia, West Africa has an opportunity to reignite its ambitions of a regional value chain. But this would require coherence in policies and collective action.

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