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AFRICA: How farmers can optimise the Green Revolution agenda by Remmy NwekeSeptember 2, 2010 by Remmy Nweke ACCRA (rDNA) - The first-ever African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) to be held in Africa began in Accra, Ghana on Thursday with an impressive array of top level speakers, but there appeared to be a shortage of front-line farmers at the International Conference Centre in Accra. There are however, several associations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who do, to a certain degree, represent the small holder farmers whose future lies at the heart of this conference. Some speakers claimed that even though most delegates were not directly involved in planting seeds and harvesting crops, we are all farmers ...
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AFRICA: Effective partnerships the key to Africa’s Green Revolution: Governments still important partner for growthSeptember 2, 2010 by Kofi Mangesi ACCRA (rDNA) - It is Africa’s time, Africa’s time has come, and Africa can be a breadbasket for itself and the rest of the world. These are the optimistic comments coming out of the three day African Green Revolution Forum organised by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and its partners taking place in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Despite these optimistic comments, the facts are still grim, Africa with massive tracts of arable land still has 300 million inhabitants going to bed hungry every day. Less than 5% of agricultural land is irrigated, and the sector ...
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Call for Nominations – Highway Africa New Media Awards 2010Call for Nominations – Highway Africa New Media Awards 2010 The 14th Highway Africa Conference 2010, hosted at Rhodes University, Eastern Cape South Africa is set to host the 10th edition of the Highway Africa New Media Awards. These unique and prestigious awards within the profession of journalism on the continent reward pioneering, innovative and creative use of technology in doing journalism that serves Africa and its citizens. The Awards were pioneered to highlight the role that digital technologies play in journalism and the media. The conference, which takes place from 5-7 July this year, calls for the submission of nominations for ...
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Highway Africa Launches Reporting Development in Africa NetworkRDNA Advisory Board: Highway Africa recently launched the Reporting Development Network Africa (rDNA), an initiative that seeks to interrogate and transform how journalists report Africa. The launch took place in Nairobi, Kenya, at the Pan African Media Conference in March 2010. Continue Reading...
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Concept Document for Highway Africa Conference 2010CONCEPT DOCUMENT FOR HIGHWAY AFRICA CONFERENCE 2010 Theme: African Voices in the Global Media Space Dates: 5-7 July 2010 Venue: Eden Grove Complex, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 1. Background Highway Africa is a partnership between Rhodes University (School of Journalism and Media Studies) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), with the support of several partners, development agencies and sponsors. For fourteen years the Highway Africa conference has been at the centre of Africa’s debates on journalism and new media. The conference has over the years become the largest annual gathering of African journalists in the world. In the last six years Highway Africa has evolved ...
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Concept document for the Digital Citizen Indaba 2009To view the Digital Citizen Indaba website click here Theme: Digital civil society and journalism in Africa Dates: 5-6 September 2009 Venue: Eden Grove Complex, Rhodes University, Grahamstown Background and objectives The main objective of the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) is to bring together bloggers, podcasters, vodcasters, mobile journalists, citizen reporters, new media practitioners, online industry experts and civil society representatives, as citizens who try to empower themselves using new media technologies. The purpose of bringing them together is to enable this empowerment to take place through participation in debate about the state of digital media, information sharing and skills transfer ...
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WAXAL Blogging Africa Awards – CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (FRENCH)Le concours WAXAL Blogging Africa Awards (Prix WAXAL des Meilleurs Blogs Africains) a été initié par l'Institut Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (IPAO, www.panos-ao.org) en partenariat avec Highway Africa (www.highwayafrica.com) et Global Voices Online (www.globalvoices.org). WAXAL (prononcez « OUA-HAL ») signifie “parler/parle” en Wolof (langue sénégalaise). Ce mot résume à lui seul l'essence de l'évolution de la toile mondiale en tant que plate-forme d’échanges et d'émergence des voix marginalisées. Pour cette première édition, les Prix WAXAL cherchent à promouvoir et soutenir le développement de blogs par les personnes travaillant en tant que journalistes ...
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WHAT IS HIGHWAY AFRICA?
Highway Africa is a partnership between Rhodes University (School of Journalism and Media Studies) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), with the support of several partners, development agencies and sponsors.
For fourteen years the Highway Africa conference has been at the centre of Africa’s debates on journalism and new media. The conference has over the years become the largest annual gathering of African journalists in the world.
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