HIV/AIDS has decimated Africas farming communities so badly, that the amount of cultivated land in some countries has declined by nearly 70 percent, researchers said on Thursday.
About 80 percent of Africans derive their living from agriculture but the illness, which has infected more than 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, has left fewer and fewer people able to till the soil.
– African agriculture depends on labor. You can not produce crops if there is nobody to work on the farms, said Annmarie Kormawa, of the System-Wide Initiative for HIV/AIDS and Agriculture (SWIHA), according to the World Bank press review.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
