ngrclimatereports November 17th, 2009
By Richard Mkandawire and Akinwumi Adesina
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call “Marie Nerica” who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government’s renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program, or CAADP, coordinated by the African Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports November 10th, 2009
Africa
By: Etim Imisim (Abuja)
A lot more investment is needed in agriculture to cut Africa’s population living in poverty by half by 2015 and this is “anything between $32 billion and $39 billion,” experts say.
This emerged during ongoing fifth Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Partnership Forum in Abuja. Three experts with CAADP, an Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) told this reporter yesterday that 2015 is around the corner and that $8 billion is needed annually in the sector in the coming years to meet MDGs’s target of reducing hunger in Africa. IFPRI does support work for NEPAD and ECOWAS and CAADP, the agriculture programme of AU-NEPAD. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports November 6th, 2009
By: Etim Imisim (Abuja)
ECOWAS heads of police and gendarmeries today rounded up a weeklong meeting which sought to add police components to the African Standby Force. Much had already been done in setting up the military component of the force. Input of the security chiefs will be used to streamline the police aspects of the framework.
Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, said the level of capability of security forces in West African was directly related to the ability of agencies to maintain law and order in the region. Continue Reading »
