In today's Financial Times there is an article titled Food security: Countries need right kind of investment on the contribution commercial agriculture can make to food security and poverty reduction. The article quotes AgDevCo:
“If you can secure the markets for farmers, that puts you in a good place. But you need to do more than that. You need to help farmers become more productive . . . Unless you bring in private investment, technology and skills, it’s going to be very difficult for the agriculture sector to move beyond where it is today".