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Policymakers, farmers and agricultural experts zero in on food security and climate change...

“Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change: Strategies of Smallholder Farmers to achieve Food Security and Income Growth in Africa” is the theme of this year’s (2010) CAADP.

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Africa's green revolution will founder without extra global funding

African countries like ours are pouring money into agriculture. But to achieve food security we need solid international support.

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The Gambian President calls for better fishing agreements

The president of The Gambia, Alhaji Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh has called for fair and equitable international trade in fish and fisheries products.

African fish stocks declining-CAMFA

Per capita fish supplies against increasing demands are dropping and an increase in illegal marine fisheries by foreign ships is threatening the livelihoods of millions in Africa.

CAMFA opens with calls to stop illegal activities on Africa’s waters

The first CAMFA opened today in the Gambian capital, Banjul, with a call to put in place robust strategies and policies to check the wanton pilferage of the continent’s aquatic resources through illegal and unreported activities in Africa’s waters.

AGRF closes with concrete outcomes to transform African agriculture

A series of outcomes from the inaugural African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) has moved a united Africa forward in the quest to transform agriculture and tackle food security.

International leaders call for new commitments at African Green Revolution Forum

International leaders today expressed their commitment to transforming agriculture in Africa while opening the inaugural African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in at the Accra International Conference Centre, Ghana.

Kofi Annan calls for united effort to accelerate African Green Revolution

African heads of state, industry representatives, the international donor community and farmers will meet in Ghana at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in the first week of September.

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President Mutharika speaks on the African Bread Basket

The African Food Basket is a new focused approach that highlights agriculture and food security as the springboard for growth supported by strategic transport infrastructures, energy development, ICT and climate change mitigation.

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Hunger Solutions On Shores Of Lake Victoria

The Afican Union’s NEPAD and WFP organized a side event on food and nutrition during the AU summit in Kampala

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