The World Economic Forum (WEF) Addresses Agriculture, Energy & Food Systems At Davos 2023
The World Economic Form (WEF) Annual Meeting 2023 was held in Davos, Switzerland, from 16 January to 20 January 2023.
There are a variety of issues and challenges addressed at Davos. I want to focus here on the global fertilizer industry and agricultural commodities. It was indeed a big theme for this year’s forum — ‘To Transform Food Systems, Give Small Farmers Irrigation, Fertilizers and Secure Market — At Lower Cost’.
Morocco’s OCP Group chairman and CEO, Mostafa Terrab, addressed the WEF in a blog post about How Africa can help feed the world with this opening line, “We meet at a defining moment for humanity.”
As an African country, Morocco faces similar issues to other countries on the continent in terms of demographics and climate change. That’s why Terrab called the transition to sustainable, smarter farming an urgent concern for the world’s food systems, but particularly in Africa where fertilizer application is significantly lower than the global average.
To effectively solve these problems in Africa’s agriculture industry, OCP Group seeks to help African farmers maximize crop yields by applying precision agriculture (PA) techniques that can adapt to localization of farming throughout areas of Africa. In the…
