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.















G. Pascal Zachary
is the author of Bush’s biography, Endless Frontier (1997), and the editor of The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush (Columbia University Press, 2022). He has taught at Stanford University, UC-Berkeley and Arizona State University.
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