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Seventy-Eight Food Systems Leaders Graduate from AGRA’s Center for African Leaders in Agriculture (CALA) Programme

December 10, 2023
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – In a landmark ceremony held , 7th December 2023 in the vibrant city of Addis Ababa, 78 exceptional leaders in food systems celebrated the culmination of their journey through the Center for African Leaders in Agriculture (CALA) programme. This initiative, spearheaded by AGRA and co-implemented by the African Management Institute (AMI) and Policy Link, marked…

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SeedCast App Launched to Transform Rice Seed Demand and Supply in Tanzania

August 31, 2023
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Dar es Salaam, In a pivotal moment for agricultural innovation, Patrick Ngwediagi, the Director General of the Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute (TOSCI), has officially launched SeedCast, a groundbreaking mobile app set to transform Tanzania’s rice seed market. The launch took place at the Rice Breeding Innovations Partners’ Annual Meeting in Dar es Salaam, gathering over 100 rice experts…

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AGRA says reliance on organic fertilizer not enough to meet food needs

March 23, 2023
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Madam Asseta Diallo, Senior Programmes Officer at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Ghana says the country’s dependence on organic fertilisers for soil nutrients may not help achieve food security. She explained that Ghana had a poor fertility status where about 65 per cent of agricultural land was depleted or severely degraded due to human activities…

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Tanzania to host the AGRF, Africa’s Food System Forum 2023

January 1, 2023
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Tanzania will host the AGRF 2023 Summit, the announcement was made by Her Excellency Samia Suluhu Hassan, the president of the United Republic of Tanzania and H.E Hailemariam Dessalegn, the Chair of the AGRF Partners Group on the sidelines of the U.S. Africa Leaders’ Summit currently taking place in Washington, DC. The AGRF, Africa’s Food Systems Forum, is the…

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Tanzania: AGRA and other development partners should provide more assistance in creating sustainable food systems

May 28, 2022
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| Agribusiness, Agriculture, Agritech, Home Slide Show

*Workable input distribution networks key to technology adoption, sustainable and improved food systems Dr Joseph Mhagama  is a Member of Parliament for Madaba Constituency in Tanzania, chair of parliamentary committee on Law and Constitution and the CEO of RUCODIA (Ruvuma Commercialization and Diversification of Agriculture)” a vocal civil society about commercialization and diversification of agriculture as a pathway to…

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Rockefeller’s $105M plan to produce climate-friendly food

April 4, 2022
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The pandemic sent global hunger soaring, but now the war in Ukraine is making the problem far worse The pandemic sent global hunger soaring, but now the war in Ukraine is making the problem far worse. Since Russia and Ukraine together supply 30% of global wheat exports, a big chunk of the world is losing access to food. Now one of the…

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Africans praise Chinese for farm skills

March 23, 2022
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Chinese agricultural technology demonstration centers, or ATDC, have promoted the transfer of advanced agricultural technologies from China to African countries, and could help the continent recover from food insecurity, said South African experts. “ATDC could play a bigger role in ensuring food security in the region as the countries recover from COVID-19,” said Elias Dafi, an econometrician who is…

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Adle Ibrahim Muhammad: Eradicating hunger in Africa through digitalisation

March 22, 2022
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One of the world’s major problems that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) seeks to tackle by 2030 is hunger. Hunger and nutritional deficiency weaken the immune system of humans while leaving them prone to chronic diseases and infections including high blood pressure and diabetes. Statistics from the World Counts estimates that “about nine million people die of hunger and…

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