The Sleeping Giant Wakes: DRC Investment Forum’s Agriculture Half-Day Takes On The 80 Million Hectare Question

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Eighty million hectares of arable land. Less than ten percent currently cultivated. The Democratic Republic of Congo imports food it should be exporting. On the morning of 27 August, the DRC Investment Forum will dedicate a half-day to answering one question: how do you turn the world’s last great agricultural frontier into a working breadbasket? []