One in five Africans is undernourished, yet the continent is widely considered to have the potential to be the breadbasket of the world. There is a dichotomy here.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations estimates that food losses in Sub-Saharan Africa add up to $4 billion annually. The system is broken, with food going off before farmers can get their produce to market, or not getting to where it’s really needed.