Dr Agnes Kalibata speaks on the need for partnerships to fast track Africa’s agricultural transformation
Dr Agnes Kalibata, president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), highlights the importance of knowledge sharing and partnership building by CTA and the need for a stakeholder alliance for achieving greater impact in digitalisation for agriculture.
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Edward Mabaya, manager of agribusiness development at the African Development Bank, explores what is needed to scale digital projects in Africa’s food market to achieve development on the continent.
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Global Lead for Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Jobs at the World Bank, Parmesh Shah, shares his opinion on how Africa can enhance its food systems through D4Ag collaboration and innovation.
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Dr Ben Addom, CTA’s ICTs for Agriculture Team Leader, speaks on some of the trends of digital agriculture, as highlighted in the CTA/Dalberg report, and the potential of the sector to transform future farming.
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Professor Frederike Praasterink is a lecturer in sustainability and future food systems in the Netherlands. She strongly believes that leadership at the local level is needed in the strategy for transforming food systems.
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As CTA launch a landmark report on digitalisation in agriculture in Africa, Michael Hailu, director of CTA highlights his hopes that the report will help inform other actors and inspire and engage investors by identifying impact and investment opportunities in this critical sector.
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Deputy director for Agricultural Development, Global Growth & Opportunity at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Enock Chikava, highlights the key role of the public and private sectors to deliver agricultural digitalisation to connect smallholder farmers at scale.
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by Friday Phiri
Zambia Country Director for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Nachilala Nkombo, discusses the role of both the public and private sectors in adapting agricultural value chains in response to the dual challenges of rapid population growth, and climate change.
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Faith Milkah Muniale discusses her involvement in the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Fellowship, and her work with indigenous Kenyan communities.
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Dr Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, director of African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), discusses the importance of gender responsiveness and building women’s confidence across the agricultural sector.
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Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou, CEO of Niger’s National Agency of Information Society, explains why the country is harnessing digital technologies to spur development.
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Ahead of COP24, taking place in Poland between 3–14 December, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, co-chair of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change, explains why indigenous knowledge must be taken into consideration.
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Dr Jemimah Njuki, senior programme specialist at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), highlights the ongoing challenges that women entrepreneurs face in running a successful agribusiness and offers innovative solutions to better support them.
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Executive Director of the Syngenta Foundation, Simon Winter, emphasises the benefits of both public and private sector actors for agricultural growth and development, as well as the need to develop localised solutions.
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In an exclusive interview with Spore, the former French Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition explains the issues at stake at the UN climate change conference (COP24), which will be held in Poland in December 2018, and the central role of agriculture in the context of climate change.
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Africa Director of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and member of the Malabo Montpellier (MaMo) Panel, Debisi Araba, explains how mechanisation can open up opportunities across Africa’s agricultural value chains.
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Prof. Andrew Campbell, CEO of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), explains why long-term, multi-disciplinary projects with a strong gender component are key to his organisation’s new strategy
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Following the European Development Days (EDDs), which put a spotlight on women’s empowerment on 5-6 June 2018, Spore spoke with CTA Director, Michael Hailu, to get his take on reducing the gender gap in agriculture, in particular through digitalisation.
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