Photo: G. Pascal Zachary
One of the forces driving Africa’s agricultural boom is that farming is now viewed as a popular, lucrative pursuit. This billboard went up in the center of Accra, Ghana’s largest city, advertising bank loans for farmers. “This is astonishing,” says Zachary. “You never would have seen such a thing 10 years ago.” Access to credit and capital could lift African agribusiness into a trillion-dollar market by 2030, according to a recent World Bank report.
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