Africa keeps rebuilding its food security every time a shipping lane closes

We have built the machinery for pooled procurement, regional trade and local manufacturing — the African Continental Free Trade Area, the Africa Trade Exchange, and the Africa Fertiliser and Soil Health Action Plan.

Africa’s gas-producing nations need to come together around a shared continental nitrogen agenda: coordinated investment in production that serves African farmers first, not only export markets.

Nitrogen is the nutrient African farmers use and crops need most, and it is the one tied most directly to natural gas, the feedstock from which it is made.