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Longing for the loaf

author(s) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
from Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
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themes
regions
  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
citation

CTA. 1999. Longing for the loaf. Spore 83. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

Wheat is the cheapest and most heavily traded cereal on the planet. 'A feast of energy!' is what the roadside posters yell in Lagos, Nigeria. Africa has been willingly invaded by bread. But some frontiers ? natural and financial ? are not so easy...

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