"If we look at the decades ahead, population and economic growth means [[sub-Saharan Africa]] will have to grow a lot more food. If it can’t produce this food through higher crop yields, it will have to cut down more of its beautiful forests which are teeming with biodiversity. Of course, it doesn’t have to be this way. **Studies show that if countries across [[sub-Saharan Africa]] can close their yield gaps, they can produce much more food without more farmland at all**. ([Location 2315](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=2315))" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[fertilisers]], [[food-production]], [[deforrestation]], [[growth]], [[just-transition]], [[food-security]], **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]