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Missing middle: The essential technicians left out of Africa’s food system
Africa lacks the ecosystem that connects production to prosperity: a combination of infrastructure, enterprises, finance, services, standards, markets and the skilled people who make them productive.
Africa has spent decades trying to help farmers produce more. That work still matters. But it is no longer enough.
The next agricultural revolution will not be won only in fields. It will be won in the spaces between the farm and the market: in warehouses, aggregation centres, cold rooms, pack houses, repair workshops, processing facilities, logistics firms and rural service businesses.
