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Africa: Agriculture Must Change
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All Africa March 2016
Paris — FAO Director-General speaks at International Forum on Agriculture and Climate Change
The model of agricultural production that predominates today is not suitable for the new food security challenges of the 21st century, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today.
While the numbers of the chronically hungry have been reduced by 100 million over the past decade, 805 million still go without enough to eat on a regular basis, he noted in remarks to ministers, scientists, farmers, and representatives of civil society gathered in the French capital for a government-organized International Forum on Agriculture and Climate Change.
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Nigeria: Agriculture - Nigeria's Next Cash Cow
All Africa February 2016
Agriculture has the potential to generate significant revenue for Nigeria, and offers more sustainable and equitable development than oil provides. With 60 per cent of Africans and by extension, Nigerians, directly depending on agriculture for survival, coupled with the growing poverty and food insecurity, agriculture should be of African nations. Importantly, if the Nigerian Government is really committed to achieving the Vision 20: 20 and putting the nation among the league of major economies of the world in the year 2020, it must begin to look inwards towards reforming the agricultural sector.
The agricultural sector should be Nigeria's next "oil" in this ever changing economic clime.
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DR Congo : Launch of the construction project of agro-industrial parks
Radio Okapi September 2014
The president, Joseph Kabila, has officially launched Tuesday, July 15 at Bukanga Lonzo (Bandundu), the proposed construction project of agro-industrial parks. This project should be established in all provinces of the DRC. According to the Agriculture Minister, Jean-Chrysostome Vahmwiti, the government hopes to offer the Congolese people a variety of food products at affordable prices.
Park Bukanga Lonzo is a pilot project. The government intends to expand these projects over the whole of the DRC, said the minister.
To believe the same source, the agro-industrial parks will also create an effective system of food production that will allow the majority of Congolese have access to a balanced diet.
For the minister, the project will also enable the DRC to meet the needs of domestic consumption and become a major exporter of food products in the medium term.