Nigeria: How Africa Can Grow Capacity to Feed Itself - AGRA President

10 December 2012

Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)'s President Jane Karuku has revealed that for Africa to feed itself and help feed the world that three decisive actions in core areas must be addressed. President Jane Karuku said we must build new, innovative public-private partnerships; ensure international donors and African policymakers keep and fund their commitments and listen to what farmers really want and need.

Speaking at the World Food Prize Symposium in the United States to discuss the need for public-private partnerships and new commitments to fund agricultural development, she said AGRA believes that in order to rapidly expand African agricultural yields and improve global economic growth that there is need to work creatively across sectors.

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