Kofi Annan appointed to chair Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

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http://www.accra-mail.com/mailnews.asp?id=1386

Kofi Annan appointed to chair Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

Posted: Friday, June 15, 2007


Mr Kofi Annan

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa has announced the appointment of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as its first chairman.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town, where he was due to deliver a keynote address on African agriculture, Mr Annan said he was deeply honoured to be taking up the position and hoped to use it to help drive forward progress on an issue critical to wider African development.

“I am honoured today to take up this important post and join with my fellow Africans in a new effort to comprehensively tackle the challenges holding back hundreds millions of small-scale farmers in Africa,” Annan said. “Africa is the only region where overall food security and livelihoods are deteriorating. We will reverse this trend by working to create an environmentally sustainable, uniquely African Green Revolution. When our poorest farmers finally prosper, all of Africa will benefit.”

The Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa, which was established last year with an initial US$150 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, seeks to help millions of small-scale farmers and their families across Africa to lift themselves and their families out of poverty and hunger through sustainable increases in farm productivity and incomes.

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1. website

http://www.agra-alliance.org/

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2. Let me guess. They're going to start burning biomass for energy.

http://web.mit.edu/africantech/www/articles/Deforestation.htm

We should send them some people from Maine to teach them all about this new green technology, in case they haven't heard of it.