At the height of the Covid-19 induced lockdowns in 2020, Dr Apollos Nwafor was coordinating the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)’s work with governments to keep food production going and markets for the same open on the continent.
But there was one hitch; most governments had omitted agriculture from their lists of essential services, meaning people in villages could not go to farms and food traders could not access markets.
