The dairy industry in Sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to grow significantly. The demand for milk and dairy products is rising because of the region’s growing population. The region also has several strengths, including a favorable climate for dairy production and a large pool of potential dairy farmers.
The year 2019 wraps up in different notes across the world. The West, particularly the United States and a few countries in Europe, puts the liberal world order that they championed since the end the World War II into question. While in Africa, multilateralism is still the headlines. African leaders have marked their history by attempting to unify the continent with the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, AfCFTA
The interest of the farmers has to come first, and the importation of rice has to be taken as a temporary and transitional solution. The policy implemented should be drastically monitored to prevent corruption and failure. Farmers’ supports should include training in rice farming techniques, such as the system of rice intensification (SRI), and creating incentives to rice production, for instance conducting a rice production contest.
Development professionals, especially project designers and monitoring and evaluation professionals, face the complexity of development issues. One problem might be specific to one sector, but they have to consider and address multiple sectoral factors to solve that problem. In other words, a development problem should not be taken isolated, out of its context, to ensure sustainable solutions. Theory of change provides this big picture approach. Making that change happen requires a holistic, often a multisectoral approach.
