The palm oil market size in Africa is estimated at $8.2B in 2018, an increase of 3.7% against the previous year.

The Amazonian wildfires have been getting plenty of attention and stoking lots of concern on social media. But NASA recently put a new spin on the situation, announcing that there are more wildfires in Africa than anywhere else in the world.

Human-elephant conflict poses major threats to the well-being of both humans and animals.

Africa’s agricultural productivity has long lagged behind the rest of the world. Crop yields grew across Asia from 1960 onwards, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty, but stagnated in Africa where cereal yields stayed largely unchanged for the 30 years of the green revolution.

Foreign investors acquired at least 1.6 million acres of U.S. agricultural land in 2016, the largest increase in more than a decade, according to a review by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting of the latest available federal data.

Most Americans don’t spend time giving much thought to Africa. But from my recent trip to Africa, I think they should.