Comments by "D. San" (@DSan-kl2yc) on "How Ghana’s rising star plunged into an economic crisis - BBC Africa" video.
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"traditional diets"
You need to look at their real diet
"There are several reasons driving Africa’s increased appetite for wheat including urbanization, rising incomes, food aid, globalization in cuisine, and fluctuations in the relative price of other staple crops such as corn. Demand for wheat-based foods have reached all-time highs in many countries both on the household level—as sales of items like pasta increase in grocery stores—and on the restaurant level, as international restaurant chains continue to find big business in Africa."
It's not that they rely on Ukraine wheat specifically, so let's put that aside.
But in a global world, and why people use it, is because it's cheap. It's cheap for people in cities. To the point that the poorer you are, the more you'll be dependent on cheaper foods(though I don't know for sure, this is generally true).
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