It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why become a farmer when you have to compete with free food that comes with aid?
There is the real nub of this. Decades of "free" have crushed the Africans willing to farm and additionally crushed any local markets, because "free" as a market price cannot be further undercut unless a citizenry is paid to consume a product. (Or in the case of the mRNA gene therapies, mandated.)
The multi-nationals in the West, through the effective use of politics and messaging about "food aid" have very effectively killed African "food" markets, for the sake of government-bought "food" produced elsewhere to be "free" in Africa. Those growing elsewhere get paid. The middlemen get paid. The government employees get paid. African farmers? Buh-bye.
And of course the Zimbabwe political idiocy was adding fuel to the fire, such that Rhodesia's "breadbasket" became Zimbabwe's starvation.
Interestingly, from the article: "Assoumani said Putin had 'demonstrated that he is ready help us in the field of grain supply,' adding that this is important, 'but it may not be quite enough. We need to achieve a cease-fire.' Putin has shown that he is 'ready to engage in dialogue and find a solution,' he said. 'Now we need to convince the other side'."
That part of the article was not excerpted, so it is herein.
Additionally, as posted to another thread:
""...a 2001 moratorium on the sale of land to foreigners had always represented an obstacle to unrestrained privatisation. As post-Maidan governments turned again to the IMF for financing, aid was conditioned on a series of land reforms that would finally allow foreign corporations to acquire vast tracts of the country's farmland. In 2020, Zelenskyy gave in to the IMF's demands and finally repealed the moratorium. 'Agribusiness interests and oligarchs will be the primary beneficiaries of such reform,' said Olena Borodina of the Ukrainian Rural Development Network. 'This will only further marginalise smallholder farmers and risks severing them from their most valuable resource.' But the World Bank could barely contain its excitement, gushing: 'This is, without exaggeration, a historic event.' Even though the new law isn't set to come into force until next year, US and Western European agrobusinesses have already bought up millions of hectares of Ukraine's farmland — with 10 private companies reportedly controlling most of it."In "The whole Ukraine goes for sale -massive profit opportunities being created by the war' -- July 17, 2023
Source: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/07/17/the-whole-ukraine-goes-for-sale-massive-profit-opportunities-being-created-by-the-war/