If you are asking: Is it better to somehow repurpose the areas of cropland in Sub Saharan Africa that are currently growing maize to optimize for emission redu

If you are asking: Is it better to somehow repurpose the areas of cropland in Sub Saharan Africa that are currently growing maize to optimize for emission reduction? Then the answer is no, not any time soon at least. Plenty of other land is available. - SSA has ~ 1.25B hectares of agricultural land.[0] - The total harvested area under maize in Africa was around 38.7 million hectares in 2018.[1] - Less than %10 of the Guinea Savannah region (a region where crops much more lucrative than maize can be grown, ~600M hectares) was farmed as of 2009.[2] [0]https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.AGRI.K2?end=2016&locations=ZG&start=1961&view=chart https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.AGRI.K2?end=2016... [1]https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/african-maize-market https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/african-... [2]https://image.slidesharecdn.com/60366271-evolution-economic-and-agriculture-development-in-sub-saharan-africa-110725105917-phpapp01/95/evolution-economic-and-agriculture-development-in-subsaharan-africa-17-728.jpg?cb=1311591993 https://image.slidesharecdn.com/60366271-evolution-economic-...