Africa has enough land to feed the world

The world population continues to increase day by day but the shortage of food production land is unlikely, because humanity still has billions of hectares of unexploited land in the continent.

This is the statement of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in a report on the status of agricultural land use globally.

"The whole world is growing food crops on 1.4 billion hectares of land and we still have about 1.6 billion hectares left unused. More than half of the unexplored land is in Africa and Latin America. ", The report confirms.

According to another report published by the World Bank (WB) and FAO, at least 400 million hectares of land - scattered in 25 African countries - are fertile enough to grow food but are not yet exploited. . If this land is included in the land area in use, Africa could provide food for the entire planet in the next 10 years.

Africa still has about 400 million hectares of unexplored land.(Photo: oneworld.net)

Models of land use conversion have been widely applied in Thailand. Here small farmers have turned barren lands into good green fields. From the lessons of Thailand, scientists from the World Bank, FAO and OECD said that the future success of the whole world depends on the governments making the best efforts to get farmers out of the scene. poverty or not.

The two reports concluded that securing long-term ownership of land for farmers is one of the most important measures to help farmers escape poverty.