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 »
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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 »
SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION: A NEW PARADIGM FOR AFRICAN AGRICULTURE (2013)
Ag4Impact presented the new report ‘Sustainable Intensification: A New Paradigm for African Agriculture’ on Thursday 18th April 2013 at the Houses of Parliament. Today, the world is searching for solutions to a series of global challenges unprecedented in their scale and complexity: food insecurity, malnutrition, climate change, rural poverty, environmental protection all among them. Sub-Saharan… Read more »
GROWTH WITH RESILIENCE: OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE (2012)
The Montpellier Panel presented their new report ‘Growth with Resilience: Opportunities for African Agriculture’ on Wednesday 21st March at the Department for International Development (DFID), London and on Thursday 22nd March at the European Commission, Brussels. The report aims to inform discussions related to key policy events in 2012 and will look broadly at agriculture’s role in supporting… Read more »
SCALING UP NUTRITION (2011)
On 17th May 2011, the Montpellier Panel launched a briefing paper on Scaling Up Nutrition in the UK Parliament. 195 million children are stunted. This is a third of all children in the world who are under five years old. Of these, 90% live in just 36 countries, 21 of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa…. Read more »
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