By Chris Arsenault ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Soil degradation holds back African farmers, costing them $68 billion annually and threatening to stall vital food production, a leading agriculture expert said on Thursday. "The problem is certainly getting worse," Sir Gordon Conway, director of the group Agriculture for Impact and a professor at Imperial College London, said in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Poor farmers don't have the money, time or labour to prevent degradation or improve their soils,” Conway said. ...
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