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Africa: 'Youth Dividend' Will Help Africa Produce Food and Jobs
allAfrica, 3 October 2015
Ten million young people are entering the African labour market every year. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity to take advantage of the "youth dividend" by… Read more »
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Africa: Harvesting the Economic Potential of Africa's Bumper Crop of Youth
AGRA, 30 September 2015
This week hundreds of agriculture experts from the public and private sector will converge on Lusaka, Zambia for the 2015 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF). Read more »
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Africa: Don't Just Make it Sexy, Walk the Talk on Women, Youth in Agriculture
allAfrica, 29 September 2015
Melissa Britz is reporting from Zambia at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF 2015), and spoke with Sylvia Mwichuli, the convener, about her expectations and hopes for the… Read more »
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Africa: MasterCard Foundation, AGRA Partner to Deliver Financial Services to Smallholder Farmers
AGRA, 1 October 2015
Initiative launched by the Foundation at AGRF to expand access to credit in rural communities across Africa Read more »
#AGRF2015 Don't Just Make it Sexy, Walk the Talk on Agriculture
African "agri-preneurs" can own the market if we tap the two assets that should be an unbeatable combination: the world's largest population of young people, and the world's largest holdings of uncultivated arable land, writes AGRA President Agnes Kalibata. AllAfrica's Melissa Britz, reporting from the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF 2015) in Zambia, spoke with Sylvia Mwichuli, the convener, about her expectations and hopes for the conference.Photo Essay
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Growing the Seeds of Change in Zambia, September 2015
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The 57 members of the Pache Pache Seed Growers Association near Kabwe in Zambia grow improved seed with the support of Afriseeds, a seed company initially funded by the Alliance for a Green Revolution ... see more »
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A Loan Agreement was signed on 08/06/15 in N'Djamena between the Republic of Chad and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, whereby the Fund will provide a Loan in the ... Read more »
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More than 2.8 million people will face hunger in the coming months in the worst food crisis in a decade in Malawi, where a staggering four out of every 10 children suffer from ... Read more »
