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SUMMARY:African Green Revolution Forum
DESCRIPTION:African ministers and business leaders have gathered in Ethiopia to consider ways to trigger a green revolution and improve the continent’s food security. Together in the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF)\, they will focus on delivering agriculture-led economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. \nIn June\, the Africa Union issued a declaration to double food productivity and halve poverty by 2025.\nFigures show that 200 million Africans are chronically malnourished and five million people die each year as a result of hunger.\nIt was against this stark backdrop that heads of state and government attending the 23rd African Union Summit adopted the Malabo Declaration\, which included a call for a greater effort to accelerate agricultural growth. \nThe AGRF presents in this four-day Forum the first major opportunity for 1000 leaders from farmers associations\, agribusiness companies\, research institutes and non-governmental organizations and African Governments to engage each other on the new vision for Agriculture and Food Security agreed by African Heads of States in July 2014. \nAs well as focusing on the wider issues of productivity and poverty reduction\, the Forum will also discuss a number of specific topics\, such as reducing post-harvest losses and climate-resilient farming. \nRead more about the Forum here. \n  \n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/african-green-revolution-forum/
LOCATION:African Union Commission Headquarters\, Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia
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SUMMARY:Dick de Zeeuw Lecture 2014 with Gerda Verburg
DESCRIPTION:Paradigm shift to secure food\nThe world food system is full of paradoxes. While enough food is being produced to feed everyone on the planet\, more than 840 million people are undernourished\, among which 165 million children. At the same time one third of all produced food is either lost or wasted. The majority of food-insecure people live in rural areas where most of the world’s food is being produced! Farmers struggle to maintain a profitable livelihood\, and are confronted with tightening environmental constraints in the face of climate change. Added to that\, they have great difficulty finding successors. These issues affect us all. The problems are well-known\, and thousands of programmes and projects have been developed and implemented. But where are the concrete and lasting results? \nWhat is going wrong here? “It’s the economy\, stupid!” \nGerda Verburg\nGerda Verburg was born on a dairy farm in the Green Heart of the Netherlands. In 2007 she was appointed Minister of Agriculture\, Nature and Food Quality. In her period as Minister\, she gave priority and special attention to innovative and sustainable agriculture and food security\, both at national\, EU and international level. After her term as Minister\, she was appointed Ambassador/ Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN Organisations for Food and Agriculture in Rome (FAO\, WFP and IFAD). In October 2013 Gerda Verburg was elected as Chair of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS). This is a multi-stakeholder committee where governments\, civil society\, private sector\, research institutions and others deal with food and nutrition related topics. \nRead here more about Gerda Verburg. \nRegister through this form to attend the lecture! Entrance is free\, but registration is obligated. \n  \n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/dick-de-zeeuw-lecture-2014-gerda-verburg/
LOCATION:Atrium van het International Institute of Social Studies\, Kortenaerkade 12\, The Hague\, 2518 AX\, Netherlands
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