Africa’s water woes ‘driving up food prices’

As this year’s World Water Week draws to a close, our reporter Michael Kaloki investigates Africa’s growing water needs – and how to improve infrastructure and management to meet them.

 Farmer Carol Mwangi tells Africa Science Focus why her efforts to overcome water challenges have left her in debt. And Olufunke Cofie, principal researcher and country representative for West Africa at the International Water Management Institute, tells us what needs to be done to buffer Africa’s vulnerability to droughts, which are affecting food prices.

This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Sub-Saharan Africa English desk.

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