Free trade may not be the best way for African counties to improve their food systems.
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Treating Afreximbank and the Trade and Development Bank as commercial creditors would reduce their capacity to finance sustainable development in Africa.
Chinese products that would have gone to the American market might be diverted to developing countries such as Nigeria.
Diversifying exports takes time; what needs to be in place to achieve this?
It’s not certain that China’s response to US trade tensions has influenced its Africa policy, but there are coincidences.
African countries require efficient infrastructure networks to boost trade within the region and with the rest of the world.
Top contributors
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Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University
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Economist and Postgraduate Supervisor, University of Lancashire; Keele University
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Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Researcher: DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape
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Director - University of Zimbabwe Business School, University of Zimbabwe
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney
