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Growing demand for local products in Africa's €1bn baby food market

Baby food is a growing sector in Africa, expected to exceed €1 billion this year. © AP - Denis Farrell

Across Africa, a third of children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition, according to Unicef, while in recent years the baby food industry has been rocked by a series of scandals, many involving major multinationals. But a growing number of local agri-food companies are moving into the baby food market.

Ivorian Marie-Ange Ehounou is a nutritionist, a state-certified early childhood educator and a mother of young children.

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