A farmer at work in Kenya's Mount Kenya region. Source: Neil Palmer(CIAT)/Wikimedia Commons
This interview is part of the series 'Development in the Face of Global Inequalities'. You can find out more about the series, read its articles and explore the interactive roundtables by clicking here.
If you walk into a supermarket in a Sub-Saharan Africa city, one of the first things you might notice is how familiar it seems. You’ll find the same brands of chocolate, imported rice and coffee you would normally buy in your own supermarket back home. What does seem strange though, is how few local products are for sale. If Africa holds half of the world’s unused fertile land, why does it import $25 billion worth of food each year? And as Africa becomes increasingly integrated into world markets, can we really say that everyone's a winner?
