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IFAD: Urgent investment needed in rural areas hit by Ebola
04.08.2016 09:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
"Urgent investments" in the rural areas of West Africa devastated by the Ebola virus are needed in order to help countries fully recover, UN Radio says referring to Kanayo Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), report made ahead of his visit to Sierra Leone and Liberia this week.
As to Nwanze, «if we do not channel our investments to the rural areas now,» then farmers would need to migrate, compromising future food security.
As to him, over 11,300 people died from Ebola between 2014 and 2016 in the two countries as well as Guinea, creating economic havoc and a collapse in agriculture exports.
Nwanze admits he would be focusing on how IFAD can further support the recovery effort, saying that since the end of the outbreak, Rural Finance Institutions had been given an extra US$960,000 to help smallholder farmers recover their livelihoods.
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