Page 10 - AFAP Success Stories 2020

Foreword by the CEO, Jason Scarpone

Welcome to this annual edition of Transforming Lives Stories
featuring many of AFAP’s successful agribusiness and farmer
partners.

The last two years have been turbulent. In some ways, it
is hard even to imagine a pre-COVID world. This edition
includes stories from COVID response; the tropical cyclone
Idai, one of the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect
Africa; political change in Malawi and Mozambique and the
January dissolution of government Burkino Faso, droughts in
Tanzania and Uganda, flooding, and food shortages.

As we go to print, the effects of the novel coronavirus disease
(COVID-19) are still creating repercussions worldwide. In
Africa, the effects on agribusiness have been numerous and
far-reaching, requiring AFAP and its partners to adapt and
adapt fast.

AFAP currently operates in 14 African countries, and while this
edition only focuses on six of them, it’s clear that each country
is experiencing COVID-19 in different ways. Some have
experienced lockdowns, border closures, and restrictions on
regional trade, all of which have affected fertilizer and seed