Options for African agriculture in an era of high food and energy prices
探讨非洲如何在粮价和能源价格高企的背景下，平衡粮食安全与商业机遇，通过发展市场、提高生产力和管理波动性来促进农业发展，并强调公共部门领导力和政策支持的重要性。
Abstract In a world of high food and energy prices, Africa has an imperative to do a better job feeding itself and ensuring that its people are food secure. At the same time, there is a new business opportunity to work with the private sector in developing the continent's potential to produce significantly more food, raw materials, and biofuels for regional and world markets. A challenge for African policy makers is to find the right balance between a food security and a business agenda, and to ensure that the business agenda engages with large numbers of small farms. Agricultural development requires many things, but the fundamentals for Africa are developing markets, increasing agricultural productivity, and managing volatility. This cannot happen at sufficient scale and speed without strong public sector leadership, enabling policies and investments, and well‐focused implementation strategies.