Integrated Solutions Key to Regional Agro-Allied Industrialization (All Africa)

All Africa quoted IFPRI’s Director for Africa Ousmane Badiane from his keynote speech at The 2016 African Economic Conference in Nigeria this week. The article featured highlights from Badiane’s speech including his ideas on the market’s relationship with agro-allied industrialization, as well as the continent’s profitable future if it harnesses the use of information communication technology (ICT). “We need integrated solutions. There is going to be amazing potential for agro-allied industrialization driven by the dynamic processes going on in the regional markets…Trade across all major regions is going to go up quite rapidly. The staple and local food (the cassavas, the millets, the cowpeas) are not all going to be consumed raw. They are all going to be processed,” he said.