A signboard is seen along the road leading to the Bukanga Lonzo agro-industrial park in Bukanga-Lonzo, western Democratic Republic of Congo, April 27, 2018. Picture taken April 27, 2018. REUTERS/Patient Ligodi NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
DAKAR (Reuters) - In 2014, Democratic Republic of Congo officials trumpeted the launch of a sweeping initiative they said would solve food shortages in one of the world’s poorest countries.
The plan: to transform land covering more than 17,900 square kilometres of the central African nation - more than half the landmass of former colonial master Belgium - into use for industrial-scale agriculture to boost food production.
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