US agri-food firms focus on African food security

US agri-food group CNFA and farm machinery firm GSI Group have launched a partnership to promote food storage and protein production systems as a critical way to improve farm productivity and food security.

This partnership will strive to reduce the multi-billion dollar food losses that occur yearly due to insufficient and inadequate post-harvest infrastructures in sub-Saharan Africa.

The venture will leverage CNFA’s proximity to thousands of smallholder farmers in Africa with GSI’s technologies for grain and perishable storage.