Ending hunger in Africa | Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture)

Ministers and senior delegates from five African Nations met today with FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva ahead of a High-Level meeting of African and international leaders in Addis Ababa next June set to create a renewed partnership for intensifying efforts to end hunger in Africa.

"There is an enormous window of opportunity," for eradicating hunger in the continent, Graziano da Silva told a side-event organized during a week-long Session of FAO's governing Council here. The key lies in capitalizing on the successes of the many African countries who have already found solutions for food insecurity and malnutrition.

Ghana invites Turkish investment | Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture)

Ghana's presidency official Ahmed said they had fertile cotton fields to farm and produce 

Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Asia's "Sugar King" to invest in Africa

Robert Kuok, the second richest man in South Esta Asia, is investing in Africa. The multi-billionaire entrepreneur owns the Shangri-La hotel chain, the South China Morning post in Hong Kong, and a huge shipping and property protfolio, but he originally made his forune in trading sugar, giving him the nickname the "Sugar King".

Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Can technology fix African Agriculture

A recent BBC article highlighted three of the tech-heavy start ups trying to change the game in Africa's agriculture sector, including a franchise that gives farmers access to higher quality products, a crop insurance scheme that makes it easier for farmers to get credit, and an SMS service through which farmers can check market prices and coordinate with other farmers to buy supplies in bulk.

Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) - Ghana

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Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Ghana is an economic success story

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Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Continued Confidence to Invest in Ghana

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Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Ghana is a wondeful success story

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Ghana: Good for doing business | Invest in Ghana | GG Agriculture

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Ghana: Economically 'sound' | Invest in Ghana | GG Agriculture

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Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Britain looking to invest in Ghana

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Agricultural sector requires similar European Banking sector bail out

The action that the European's have taken on bailing out their failing and troubled banking sector, is similar to what African countries need to do with their Agricultural sector, said Rhoda Peace Tumusiime head of the Department of the Rural Economy and Agriculture at the AU (African Union Commission).