AfDB has designed emergency food production plan for Africa
A Finance expert, Mazi Iroy Orji, has urged the government to put measures in place that could address possible food insecurity resulting from the Russia/Ukraine war, predicting that the war may lead to heightened global food insecurity that will be worse than the previous food crises over the past decade.
He said that the African Development Bank (AfDB) has designed a $1.5 billion Africa emergency food production plan to support countries to produce around 38 million tonnes of food comprising about 11 million tonnes of wheat; 18 million tonnes of maize; six
million tonnes of rice and two and half million tonnes of soybeans to mitigate the effect of the war on food prices.