In Tanzania, AGRA’s approach forced small-scale food into debt.
Projects in Zambia also led to the indebtedness of participating small-scale food producers. Some farmers already after the first harvest were unable to repay loans for fertilizer and seeds.
AGRA has forced farmers to grow maize. Some countries, like Zambia, have nearly doubled the area planted with maize as a result of the Green Revolution incentives to plant the crop, yet their productivity growth over the 12- year period is only 27%.
The results are disastrous (even before the corona “pandemic”). The number of severely undernourished people in AGRA countries increased from 100.5 million to 131.3 million from 2006 to 2018 (a 30% increase).
For Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, the number of severely undernourished people increased by more than 50 million to 230 million people, but the share thereof decreased slightly from 24.3% to 22.5%.
In Nigeria and Uganda the increase in undernourishment was the largest, with the number more than doubling in these 12 years. In Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, and Uganda the share as well as the number of starving increased.
Only Ethiopia reports a significant decline in the amount of chronically hungry people:
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