How can Africa grow more food?
Rising food prices are focusing minds on Africa's agricultural output, and on whether or not technology is the best way to boost production
REPORT: FOOD PRODUCTION WILL REMAIN AT THE SAME LEVEL FOR THE NEXT DECADE
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Today, IFAD President released The Rural Poverty Report 2011 at Chatham House in London, #rpr2011
Monday, December 6, 2010
Here is our big day. We are launching the Rural Poverty Report 2011. The report is the result of two years of extensive work.
To make sure that nothing would go wrong, I went down early to the plenary hall of Chatham House to get myself organized to find out to the my biggest chagrin that there was no internet access in the plenary hall. PANIC, total PANIC. I pulled out my Blackberry, more PANIC, no signal!!
Deep breath, think and think fast. Rushed upstairs to do as much as I could do before the meeting started. After putting in place the contingency plan and coming to terms with my constraint, I headed back downstairs.
At 9:33, David Nabarro welcomed the participants and opened the “Food Security 2010 – Making Food Security work: Matching supply to demand. More...
The Multifunctionality of Agriculture
WTO Agreement on Agriculture
GM Crops and Foods
Food Subsidy and local economies
Corporate, Foreign Government land grab
The Right To Water
• RESPONDING TO REAL AND PRESENT DANGERS •
• FACILITATING SELF-MOBILISATION •
CHALLENGING DOGMA AND PROPAGANDA
• EFFECTIVE NETWORK •
AMBUSHING AN IMMINENT CONJUNCTION
• THE ENDURING IMPERATIVES •
OF THE PAN-AFRICANIST STRUGGLE
• CONSOLIDATION OF INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY •
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