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World Service,4 mins

‘The biggest business in Africa will be the food business’

Newsday

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The African Development Bank is bullish about realising the continent's potential. Last week in a conference in Senegal it unveiled an ambitious plan to modernise agriculture, transforming it into viable agri-businesses. Before that though, the continent will need to overcome the effects of China's economic slowdown. So how's that going? Newsday's Alan Kasujja found out from the head of the bank, Akinwumi Adesina. (Photo: An Ivorian farmer harvests rice. Credit: ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)

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