Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC coming up,

helping Africa feed itself a new way to support local farmers.

What we're doing is we're creating a lot of stable, decades-long demand of large quantities of grain

for farmers, which then enables them to feel secure that that demand is going to be

there and to remain working.

Yesterday, we're looking at new ideas for how to support Africa's homegrown, food

growing capacity, and why this is central to future employment as well.

We need to create 680 million jobs across the world, and most of them have to be in Africa. So access to

finance and putting finance in the hands of people who can execute on the ground is really the key.

Food and Jobs. Business Daily from the BBC. It's a point I think that's not made often enough. Just how fertile, how rich in extraordinary

wildlife and beauty sub-Saharan Africa really is. I see it myself whenever I visit. For example,

last year in northern Uganda, where outside one national park and game reserve, I met up

with a local farmer, Justice Alemo.

There's an amazing view across the valley now. I'm looking to my right. Is this all your land?

Yeah. Mind is a mega. It is mine. Wow. What are you going to grow in this field here?

We grow cassava, maize and soya beans.

This is rich land around here, yeah? It's good, good land is good. It's really fertile.

Do you ever get elephants and rhino coming into your land? Yeah, yeah, they do. They come. Last year we were chasing them from here. They actually come up to the maze plantation. Then we just chase them through, like, making a lot of noise so they can scare where and they go.

Good. I'd be quite scared of them if they came onto my land, I think.

No, no.

We are not truly scared.

I wish you could see this amazing land around me.

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