Better planning, coordination, with well-trained workers will help Namibia record more successes in its Home Grown School Feeding Programme, a NEPAD Agency food and nutrition expert said yesterday in Windhoek.
As policy leaders gather at various platforms to assess the state of the world economy, the issue of food security in Africa and reducing risks associated with the lack of it, has been foremost on many agendas.
The Grow Africa Investment Forum, convened jointly by the AU, NEPAD and the WEF, engaged over 270 leaders including heads of state and government as well as leaders of African and global business, international and donor agencies and farmer organizations.
Kenya is set to host the CAADP PP meeting in the capital city of Nairobi 3-4 May, under the theme, “Accelerating CAADP implementation for results and impact,” the organisers said in a statement made available to PANA here.
The NEPAD Agency and FAO partnership is a collaborative undertaking with the objective of supporting regional efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Delegates will share and examine experiences and lessons emerging from country and regional level implementation of CAADP in advancing increased agriculture performance.
NEXT year's budget allocation to the agriculture sector should reach 10 per cent to enable rapid growth of up to 8 per cent per annum required to transform impoverished rural communities, the Agriculture Council of Tanzania (ACT) has said.
Experts from several organizations and countries at a meeting in the capital of the East African country, Dar-es-Salaam, agreed to support efforts to integrate nutrition security into the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme.