A Solution to Africa’s Deforestation Crisis
According to the State of Food and Agriculture released last month, between 2001 and 2023 sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lost 72 million hectares of forests — an area about the size of Kenya. The primary driver of this deforestation: agricultural expansion. The crux of this challenge is SSA’s stubbornly low crop yields. It is the lowest in the world. The average…