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 »
Posts Tagged: Entrepreneur
SMALL AND GROWING: ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE (2014)
In 2012, sub-Saharan African countries spent $37.7 billion on food imports. Rising levels of unemployment, coupled with sustained poverty, continued food and nutrition insecurity, and an unsustainable use of natural resources remain immense challenges. Yet they also offer equally immense opportunities. The latest report from the Montpellier Panel– an eminent group of European and African… 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 »
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