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Africa: Adesina Addresses Need to End Rural Poverty At One World Conference in Berlin
African Development Bank (AfDB), 28 April 2017
The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has called for urgent action to end rural poverty in Africa at a conference on the future of the rural… Read more »
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"Future of the Rural World Depends on the Future of Agriculture"
The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has called for urgent action to end rural poverty in Africa at a conference on the future of the rural world in Berlin. "We must pay particular attention to three factors: extreme rural poverty, high rates of unemployment among the youths and climate and environmental degradation - what I refer to as the 'disaster triangle'," Adesina told participants during a keynote speech delivered Thursday at the 'One World, No Hunger: Future of the Rural World' conference hosted by the German Development Ministry (BMZ). Read more. More about AfDB in this BRIEFING.
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27 April 2017
Speech delivered by Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, at the G20 Meeting on “One World, No Hunger: Future of the Rural World”, Berlin, Germany, April 27, 2017
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Speech delivered by Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, at the G20 Meeting on "One World, No Hunger: Future of the Rural ... see more »
The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has called for urgent action to end rural poverty in Africa at a conference on the future of the rural world in Berlin.
In a speech delivered at a meeting with the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development of the German Parliament in Berlin, the President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, thanked the Committee for Germany's generous contribution to the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional resource arm of the Bank.
Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, delivered a speech at the G20 Meeting on “One World, No Hunger: Future of the Rural World”, Berlin, Germany, April 27, 2017.
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28 April 2017
Berlin Conference to Tackle Global Hunger
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On the eve of a German-African conference on global hunger, DW's Helena Humphrey spoke with the president of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi ... see more »
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The third and final replenishment meeting for the 14th replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF-14) took place in Luxembourg from November 28-29. In nearly 40 years of ... Read more »
