Supporting Ghana's grain market
Date: 02.11.09
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A private-public partnership that seeks to strengthen the Ghanaian grain market was recently awarded USD 1.25 million by the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund. The Ghana Grain Partnership aims to support maize farmers to increase production without fearing price collapses, in addition to supporting the development of a regional grain market.
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Date: 09.29.08
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Two groundbreaking private-public partnerships aim to de-bottleneck agricultural commodity streams and catalyze Agricultural Growth Corridors in Africa.
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Date: 11.07.08
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World Food Day 2008 was marked against the backdrop of a global food crisis, as well as a global financial crisis which former US President Bill Clinton urging the world to stop using as an excuse to avoid dealing with escalating hunger. The recently published Global Hunger Index records scant progress in Africa, where hunger, according to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is undergoing a steady and appalling rise.
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Date: 11.07.08
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The great opportunity for Africa economically and socially lies in improving agricultural productivity and increasing production. Such a development is within reach, but will require broad partnerships transcending traditional boundaries, argues Thorleif Enger, former CEO of Yara International, in his contribution to a recent publication by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Date: 06.05.09
Modernising agriculture is crucial to development and industrialization in Africa, as well as to food security, the 2009 issue of the Economic Report on Africa, published jointly by the AU and the ECA, states.
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Date: 06.05.09
The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, argues that medium-sized farms are the engine for agricultural growth in Africa, meriting considerable investments.
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Date: 06.05.09
"For four years in a row, a starving country is no longer a starving country," says Pedro Sanchez about the impressive results of the agricultural policies of Malawi, with other countries following suit in introducing subsidy programs.
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Date: 06.05.09
The President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete has announced that the country needs about 2.5 trillion shillings for a long-term government agriculture program to increase fertilizer use, irrigation and use of high-yielding seeds.
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Date: 06.05.09
The President of the USA, Barack Obama, promised US support and investments in agricultural productivity and food security in Africa, when receiving the President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, in the White House.
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Date: 06.05.09
The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) have signed an agreement to strengthen the capacity for safe biotechnology management in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Date: 05.11.09
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) argues the supplement of modern techniques to a highly diversified African agriculture; others hold that organic production is the safe and sound way forward.
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Date: 05.11.09
The African Development Bank (AfDB) joins hands with other development agencies to set up a new African Agriculture Fund to attract more private sector involvement in agriculture, at the same time providing fertilizers at affordable prices in East Africa.
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Date: 05.11.09
The Investment Fund for Agriculture in Africa (Fonds d'investissement pour l'agriculture en Afrique, FIAA), with an initial capital of EUR 200 million, has been established through a partnership between development agencies and the AGRA.
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Date: 05.11.09
The UK-based multinational Standard Chartered bank has partnered with the German Deutshce Investitions und Entwicklunsgesellschaft (DEG) to start a fund of EUR 100 million for agricultural loans particularly to help small-scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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