Sustainable investment, not donations, are needed in rural Africa

Global supply chain weakness and urbanisation trends are being disproportionately felt in the most rural parts of Africa. Yet those areas both offer opportunities for high-impact investment, and expose the need to rethink aid provision.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reminded us how interdependent and fragile global supply chains are, creating stress for the world’s poor by hindering efforts to fight poverty, food insecurity and famine. This is taking a particularly heavy toll on many African countries.