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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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Private sector incentives to finance the African Green RevolutionSeptember 2, 2010 by John Yarney ACCRA (rDNA) - Three West Africans – a Ghanaian, an Ivorian and a Senegalese are making a brave attempt to do something extra-ordinary. Their recently founded fund management company, called Injaro Investments, is putting money into agriculture – an area that is widely believed to be fraught with risk. And they have raised the stakes even higher by targeting local seed producers in West Africa as their main market “We are expecting a return; we want to condition them [seed companies] to be profitable. After our involvement, they should have developed good corporate structures to be investable ...
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Africa:A Call to Action: Working together to boost investment in African agricultureSeptember 2, 2010 By Steven Lang An intricate array of interests is being woven together like fine Kente cloth at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Accra Ghana this week. At least half a dozen heads of African governments, numerous international financiers and a wide range of NGO heavy-hitters are among the 800 delegates working together to find ways of boosting investments in Africa’s agricultural sector. The conference is based on the precept that until the African continent is able to feed itself, it will always lag behind the rest of the world. Farming is the backbone of the continental economy, but ...
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RDNA reporting from the African Green Revolution Forum, Accra, Ghana, 2-4 September 2010Highway Africa Training Manager, Moagisi Letlhaku, and a group of journalists from the Highway Africa Network, are attending the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) (http://agrforum.com/) taking place in Accra, Ghana from 2-4 September. The delegation is attending the AGRF under Reporting Development Network Africa (RDNA), one of Highway Africa's projects which seeks to increase in-depth and analytical coverage of African development issues, such as agriculture and financial services, to help foster public debate and inform related policy decisions. The AGRF is a forum which brings together African heads of state, ministers, farmers, private agribusiness firms, financial institutions, NGOs, civil society and scientists; with aims to help drive ...
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FJP Pan AfricaBy Khaya Thonjeni The Future Journalism Programme’s decision to cast their net wider and deeper into the African continent has attracted very enthusiastic responses. After an invitation was sent out to students in West African countries to apply for participation in the FJP programme, three students took this invitation seriously. Sophiane Bengeloun from Senegal Cesti University, Peter Okosun from Lagos Polytechnic in Nigeria and Selina Bebaako-Mensah from Ghana were among the 18 second-year journalism students that attended the FJP winter school between 1 and 10 July. Their two-week visit involved training workshops as well as reporting on new media platforms about the National ...
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Citizen journalism mooted to fill content gap in broadcast media industryBy Kennedy Abwao African media executives meeting Wednesday to discuss the peaceful co-existence of various forms of telecommunication, have proposed the use of the new phenomenon in the industry, known as citizen journalism, to bridge the growing need for local content. According to the executives, content has always remained the driver of the broadcasting industry, but the local content is "the new king" in the game for a prosperous industry. "We should now turn our attention to citizen journalism. That is a form of local content that is not being made use of in our media," said Kiarie Nderitu, the Technical Manager, Nation ...
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CAF on the spot over exorbitant chargesBy Michael Ouma Football associations in Africa have been urged to stand up and speak out about Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) exploitation of the continent’s football fans by exorbitantly charging broadcast stations for live airing of matches. This is because exorbitant charges levied by CAF before broadcasters can carry live matches to their audiences during both regional and continental competitions has meant that not very many audiences who rely on free-to-air transmitted programmes can watch the matches after their respective broadcasting stations fail to pay the fees levied by CAF. Speaking during the second day of the first African Broadcast, Film and ...
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African broadcasters want joint production facilities to cut costsBy Kennedy Abwao The quest for an effective formula to facilitate the sharing of broadcasting content and the new concept of joint broadcasting facilities became dominant issues at a major conference here to explore the convergence of broadcasting and telecommunication. In the wake of fresh emphasis on new investments on an undersea cable linking the Eastern African coast to the rest of the world for ease of telecommunication, African broadcasters are facing up to the challenge of reducing dependence on foreign content. Industry experts have proposed the creation of joint broadcasting facilities, which would work together with the new medium of delivering broadcast ...
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African broadcasters seek direct government investments in film industryBy Kennedy Abwao African broadcasters have challenged industry regulators to invest in local production of programmes that add value to prime time television viewership as a first step towards narrowing the lack of technical expertise in Africa's television industry. Kenyan industrialist, Chris Kirubi said the country's telecommunications regulator, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) should re-invest the money it receives from licensing fees to keep the broadcast industry afloat in a competitive world. Broadcasters in Africa are predicting a major decline in the revenue generated from advertising as a result of the entry of new players in the continent's telecommunication industry. This, coupled ...
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