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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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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 , to enhance regional trade and growth as part of the…

Today, Deputy Assistant to the President Amos Hochstein joined 🇪🇺 @JuttaUrpilainen, 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…
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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…

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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.

Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn, President Emeritus of the @WorldFoodPrize welcomes guests to the side event on Transforming the Agriculture Sector in Africa at the 2023 Norman E. Borlaug Dialogue. Focus on the @AfDB_Group's Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones. #FeedAfrica
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As 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. is self-sufficient in wheat and now a wheat exporter to its neighbours.

As #African leaders, we're committed to self-sufficiency in food production, Ethiopia's President @SahleWorkZewde tells @AfDB_Group's @akin_adesina at @WorldFoodPrize Borlaug Dialogue. #Ethiopia is self-sufficient in wheat and now a wheat exporter to its neighbours. #FeedAfrica
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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

#FoodPrize23 fireside chat between Nigeria VP HE Shettima Kassim & @AfDB_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
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, 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

#FoodPrize23, @AfDB_Group Pres. Adesina thanked the USAID ⁦@SamanthaJPower⁩ and NORAD ⁦@AnneBeathe_⁩ for the de-risking facility to leverage billions from MDBs including ⁦AfDB as partial credit guarantees for farm inputs in Africa ⁦@beth_dunford⁩⁦@VisserLola
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Akinwumi A. Adesina World Food Prize Foundation Beth Dunford Martin Fregene CGIAR #Technologies to #FeedAfrica : Unlocking Africa’s agriculture potential is at the core of @AfDB_Groups’s 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

@akin_adesina @WorldFoodPrize @beth_dunford @mfregene77 @CGIAR @Taat_Africa #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. - @akin_adesina
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: 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.

#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. @AfDB_Group President @akin_adesina. #FeedAfrica #HarnessingChange
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: At , we heard from African leaders that now is the time to . 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

#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. - @akin_adesina
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During , 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, @AfDB_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
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During , 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

During #FoodPrize23, @AfDB_Group Pres. Akinwumi Adesina and African leaders, H.E. @SahleWorkZewde, 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
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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.

 

African Development Bank President @akin_adesina delivered remarks at the African Agricultural Dialogue: Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones, a side event at the @WorldFoodPrize Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa. #FeedAfrica #DakarToDesMoines #HarnessingChange #SAPZ
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A packed side event with 2017 Laureate Dr. Akinwumi Adesina! Transforming the agriculture sector in Africa through special Afro-industrial processing zones rooms 317 & 318!

A packed side event with 2017 Laureate Dr. Akinwumi Adesina! Transforming the agriculture sector in Africa through special Afro-industrial processing zones rooms 317 & 318!
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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!

Scoring a goal for the @AfDB_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 @tkende1. Thanks for a great day!
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