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‘Food shortage to get worse if insecurity persists’
5 years agoIvorian cocoa farmers break organic cocoa pods in the plantation in M'brimbo, a village in central Ivory Coast village near Tiassale, on April 19, 2021. - Cocoa farmers across Ivory Coast, the world's biggest producer of the key ingredient for chocolate, are down in the dumps after prices for their commodity have fallen for the second year running. Not so in M'Brimbo, a village in central Ivory Coast which 11 years ago became a testing ground for organic cocoa farming and today is prospering. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)
A professor of agriculture, Hafiz Abubakar, has warned that food challenges may persist and get complicated in the country if insecurity is not tamed urgently.
