Words

• affordable = when you have enough money to buy something
• agriculture = farming
• annual = yearly
• award = give a prize to someone
• bottled water = water that is produced and sold in a bottle
• certification = an official document that says you have produced something  of good quality
• challenge = problem that you have to solve
• civil war = conflict in which two or more groups from the same country fight against each other
• competitive = trying hard to be more successful than others
• consumer = a person who buys a product
• contribute = to play a part in
• credible = to be trusted
• cultivation = farming
• decade = ten years
• distribution = here: to bring products to different places
• diversification = here: to produce many different things so that you are not dependent on one product alone
• domestic = in the country
• due to = because of
• embark = to start something which is especially difficult or exciting
• employ = to give someone work
• encourage = to make someone do what you want
• entrepreneurial = to start a business that involves taking risks
• facility = here: laboratory
• food security = to produce enough food on your own
• forefront = here: in a leading position, very important
• funding = money
• hinder = delay , be a problem for
• immense = very large
• indicator = sign
• informal = natural, not so strict
• infrastructure = the basic things that a country needs, like schools, roads , hospitals etc…
• irrigation = to bring water to plants on dry land
• logistics = the business of transporting things to where you need them
• net importer = to import more than you export
• nutritional = about the things in food that keep you healthy
• objective = aim
• ongoing = not finished
• promote = here: to get people to buy products
• public health = the health of all the people in a country
• quota = the official limit on the number of products you can produce
• remarkable = amazing, extraordinary
• revenue = the money you get from selling a product
• self-sufficiency = to produce the things you need without the help of others
• significant = very important
• sisal = tropical plant which is used for making ropes
• stride = step, progress
• sub-Saharan = the countries south of the Sahara desert
• sugar cane = tropical plant used to produce sugar
• supply = the amount that is produced
• sustainable = to continue doing things without causing harm to nature or the environment
• volume = amount