Supporting agriculture to create sustainable development

Stretching from Cape Town in South Africa, across the Sahara Desert, to the Mediterranean Sea in the north, Africa is the world’s second largest continent. It is rich in natural resources such as oil and gold, and enjoys many different climates that support the growth of crops as diverse as cereals in the savannah lands to cocoa in the tropical rainforest zones. Despite all this natural wealth, the people of Africa have actually become poorer over the past 25 years, with many nations falling into…