The prime minister claims to have made Ethiopia Africa’s breadbasket. The numbers disagree
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Mar 13th 2025|nairobi
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Africa has a new breadbasket—or so says Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister. Thanks to a state-led programme of agricultural modernisation the country, once a byword for famine, claims to have gone from importing around a quarter of its wheat to being self-sufficient and exporting a large surplus in the five years to 2023. Last year Ethiopia even grew as much wheat as Ukraine, an important grain exporter, according to official figures,but the numbers disagree.
Source: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-a ... to-be-true