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Monthly Archives: January 2012
The African Union and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation Sign Memorandum of Understanding.
Reblogged from African Seed: Collaboration to facilitate the deployment of agricultural technologies to help address productivity constraints affecting smallholder farmers in Africa and raise agricultural productivity NAIROBI: 27 January 2012 – The African Union (AU) Commission and the African Agricultural Technology … Continue reading
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Squaring the circle: Managing competing priorities in agriculture
David Kikoola and his family before him have been residents of the Ssese islands in the Ugandan part of Lake Victoria for generations. As outgoing district chairperson and successful oil palm farmer he is very interested in agricultural sustainability and … Continue reading
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Inspiration for action: Bill Gates launches his annual letter with The Global Poverty Project
The Old Theatre at the London School of Economics (LSE) fell into a hushed silence today as the lecture hall audience waited for keynote speakers Bill Gates and Professor Hans Rosling to appear. A projected live Twitter feed organised by … Continue reading
Ghana’s good news has roots in agriculture
Ghana is the only country in sub-Saharan Africa likely to meet both the Millennium Development Goals of halving the proportion of people in poverty, and the proportion of people who are hungry, by 2015. Ghana’s development success was showcased in … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, CAADP, Gates Foundation, Ghana, IFPRI, Kufuor, MDG, ODI, World Food Prize
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Targeting and Trade-offs: water management technologies for the poorest farmers
Sara Delaney We have all heard about the problem – agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is less productive than in other regions. This is in part because of the low use of irrigation, or any form of water management, for … Continue reading
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