Martin Fregene
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Dr. Fregene is a geneticist & agricultural policy expert. He is currently Director of Agriculture and Agro-Industry at the African Development Bank, Abidjan.
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04-01-2010 02:32:15
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Today, Deputy Assistant to the President Amos Hochstein joined 🇪🇺 Jutta Urpilainen, representatives from 🇦🇴🇨🇩🇿🇲, the Africa Development Bank, and Africa Finance Corporation to sign an MoU developing the #LobitoCorridor , to enhance regional trade and growth as part of the…
Anne Beathe Tvinnereim Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism welcomes $10.15 million from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation to boost fertilizer supply to 850,000 African smallholder farmers afdb.org/en/news-and-ev…
Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn, President Emeritus of the World Food Prize Foundation welcomes guests to the side event on Transforming the Agriculture Sector in Africa at the 2023 Norman E. Borlaug Dialogue. Focus on the African Development Bank Group's Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones. #FeedAfrica
As #African leaders, we're committed to self-sufficiency in food production, Ethiopia's President Sahle-Work Zewde tells African Development Bank Group's Akinwumi A. Adesina at World Food Prize Foundation Borlaug Dialogue. #Ethiopia is self-sufficient in wheat and now a wheat exporter to its neighbours. #FeedAfrica
#FoodPrize23 fireside chat between Nigeria VP HE Shettima Kassim & African Development Bank Group Pres. Adesina on the National emergency food production program in Nigeria. The government will give 300,000 wheat and rice farmers 50% subsidies on seeds, fertilizer and extension AgroNigeria
Akinwumi A. Adesina World Food Prize Foundation Beth Dunford Martin Fregene CGIAR #Technologies to #FeedAfrica #DakarToDesMoines : When drought hit the Southern Africa region in 2019, #Technologies to #FeedAfrica deployed water efficient + drought tolerant maize varieties, which were cultivated by 5.2m farmers on 841,000 hectares. Akinwumi A. Adesina #FeedAfrica #HarnessingChange
Akinwumi A. Adesina World Food Prize Foundation Beth Dunford Martin Fregene CGIAR #Technologies to #FeedAfrica Victor Oladokun Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka Richard Uku #DakarToDesMoines : The size of the food + agribusiness in Africa will be worth $1t by 2030. Invest in African food + agribusiness. The political will is strong. The results on the ground show huge promise. Let’s collectively seize the moment. Akinwumi A. Adesina #FeedAfrica
Akinwumi A. Adesina World Food Prize Foundation Beth Dunford Martin Fregene CGIAR #Technologies to #FeedAfrica Victor Oladokun Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka Richard Uku #DakarToDesMoines : We are rolling out the Regional West Africa Rice Development program, a $650m regional operation across 15 countries. It will help increase rice production in West Africa by 7 mt of milled rice per year by 2027 -- an increase of 40%. - Akinwumi A. Adesina #FeedAfrica
African Development Bank Group World Food Prize Foundation Martin Fregene Philip Boahen Kashim Shettima Office of the President, Ethiopia Dina Esposito (she/her) John Deere Africa & Middle East Thermo Fisher Alphonso Van Marsh Bank Pres. Akinwumi Adesina delivers a 'Dakar to Des Moines' presentation on Bank efforts to #FeedAfrica through #AfDB #agriculture programs. He mentions our impactful Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation, or #TAAT , initiative. Learn more: tinyurl.com/ych7w6bx
#FoodPrize23 , African Development Bank Group Pres. Adesina thanked the USAID Samantha Power and NORAD Anne Beathe Tvinnereim for the de-risking facility to leverage billions from MDBs including AfDB as partial credit guarantees for farm inputs in Africa Beth DunfordVisser-Mabogunje Lola
Akinwumi A. Adesina World Food Prize Foundation Beth Dunford Martin Fregene CGIAR #Technologies to #FeedAfrica #DakarToDesMoines : Unlocking Africa’s agriculture potential is at the core of @AfDB_Groups’s #FeedAfrica strategy. Since we launched our strategy in 2016, along with several partners, we have supported over 250m people to benefit from improvements in agriculture. - Akinwumi A. Adesina
#DakarToDesMoines : While much progress has been made in African agriculture, 283 million people still go to bed hungry in Africa, about a third of the 828 million people that suffer hunger globally. African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi A. Adesina. #FeedAfrica #HarnessingChange
African Development Bank President Akinwumi A. Adesina delivers remarks at the #DakarToDesMoines event held on the sidelines of the World Food Prize Foundation Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa. #FeedAfrica #HarnessingChange #FoodPrize23
Akinwumi A. Adesina World Food Prize Foundation Beth Dunford Martin Fregene CGIAR #Technologies to #FeedAfrica #DakarToDesMoines : In just 4 years, the #Technologies to #FeedAfrica platform delivered heat tolerant wheat varieties, drought tolerant maize varieties + high yielding rice varieties to 12m farmers + increased food production by an additional 25m mt. - Akinwumi A. Adesina #FeedAfrica #HarnessingChange
#DakarToDesMoines : At #AfricaFoodSummitDakar2 , we heard from African leaders that now is the time to #FeedAfrica . That it was time that we start strategically talking about how to get Africa, which has 65% of the uncultivated arable land left, to feed the world. - Akinwumi A. Adesina
During #FoodPrize23 , African Development Bank Group Pres. Adesina spoke about the ambitious regional operation, Regional West Africa Rice Development (REWARD) program to help 15 African countries reach rice self-sufficiency undergoing RO prioritization before board approval. Beth Dunford
During #FoodPrize23 , African Development Bank Group Pres. Akinwumi Adesina and African leaders, H.E. Sahle-Work Zewde, Pres. of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and Vice President of Nigeria, Senator Shettima Kassim, talk about the resolve of African leaders to feed the Continent by 2027
African Development Bank President Akinwumi A. Adesina delivered remarks at the African Agricultural Dialogue: Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones, a side event at the World Food Prize Foundation Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa.
#FeedAfrica #DakarToDesMoines #HarnessingChange #SAPZ
Scoring a goal for the African Development Bank Group - literally! Years of playing football with my 2 older brothers in the garden did not leave me with a high level of technical skill! Great fun being at the Bank’s sports day for staff & families with my daughter talia ;). Thanks for a great day!