Gordon Conway writes for the Huffington Post 2014 is the AU year of Agriculture and Food Security. As African leaders gather at the end of this month in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, for the 23rd African Union (AU) Summit, they have an opportunity to make good on their 2003 promise to allocate ten percent of their… Read more »
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COMMENTARY – HOW TO MAKE AN ENTREPRENEUR: EMILY ALPERT BLOGS FOR THE CHICAGO COUNCIL
You can’t make an entrepreneur. They cannot be bought, packaged, or sold. Entrepreneurial spirit is something you are born with, but to flourish as an entrepreneur, it takes more than just good genes. It takes skills, business management training, affordable finance, and a nurturing business environment.Read more on the global food for thought blog … Read more »
SIR GORDON CONWAY TO OUTLINE THE GREEN REVOLUTION’S LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE AT BORLAUG SUMMIT ON WHEAT FOR FOOD SECURITY
Mexico City, March 26, 2014 Sustainable intensification can be approached through ecological, genetic or socio-economic means. These issues will be discussed in the context of increased wheat production by Sir Gordon Conway, a Professor of International Development at Imperial College London and Director of Agriculture for Impact, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded advocacy… Read more »
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‘SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION’ OFFERS HOPE FOR A RESILIENT AFRICAN GREEN REVOLUTION, SAYS MONTPELLIER PANEL
Expert Panel Calls for Action Now to Meet Food Needs, Build Resilience to Climate Change Addis Ababa – 15 May 2014 – African and European experts from the Montpellier Panel are calling for ‘sustainable intensification’ to be embraced as a necessary and urgent pathway for meeting global food needs and building resilience to climate change… Read more »
FAMILY FARMS ARE VIABLE WITH SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION, SAYS SIR GORDON CONWAY
Montpellier – 1 June 2014 – Professor Sir Gordon Conway highlights the need for sustainable intensification to ensure family farms are viable and resilient at the “International Encounters: Family Farming and Research,” held in Montpellier, France from June 1-3. Today, family farming – crop, livestock, forestry and fishery production that is managed, operated and laboured… Read more »
GLOBAL LAUNCH: MONTPELLIER PANEL REPORT
Agriculture for Impact launched its latest Montpellier Panel report “Small and Growing: Entrepreneurship in African Agriculture” (PDF) in London in June 2014. Co-hosted by the All- Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development (APPG), the event welcomed a panel of experts to discuss how investments in rural and food sector entrepreneurship in Africa can… Read more »
IFAD’S ASSOCIATE VICE-PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMMES KEVIN CLEAVER REVIEWS ‘ONE BILLION HUNGRY: CAN WE FEED THE WORLD?
Can We Feed the World? The International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Associate Vice-President of Programmes Kevin Cleaver reviews Gordon Conway’s One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?. Read the review here This review was ahead of Gordon’s visit to Rome where he lead and participated in a series of high-profile discussions on the critical issues raised… Read more »
PROFESSOR SIR GORDON CONWAY VISITS AGRA IN GHANA
Highlights of the visit Gordon Conway visited Ghana from November 24th to 30th His first purpose was to see progress on the so-called ‘Breadbasket’ of Northern Ghana which is subject to a major programme of AGRA (the Alliance for a Green Revolution for Africa). He flew up to the capital of the region, Tamale, in the company of Dr. Kehinde Makinde,… Read more »
GIRLS GROW: A VITAL FORCE IN RURAL ECONOMIES
On 7 October, Gordon Conway spoke at the launch of the new Chicago Council report on the role of girls in rural economies of developing countries and also hosted a dinner at the Commonwealth Club in London to celebrate. If you want to change the world, invest in adolescent girls On Friday 7th October, Sir… Read more »
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