African countries commit to double agricultural productivity as development banks and partners pledge over $17 billion to increase food security - World

African countries commit to double agricultural productivity as development banks and partners pledge over $17 billion to increase food security
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These funds were pledged on the final day of a two-day high-level dialogue called
Feeding Africa: leadership to scale up successful innovations. The African Development Bank and the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) hosted the event in partnership with the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the CGIAR System Organization on 29 and 30 April.
Seventeen African heads of state signed on to the commitment to boost agricultural production by doubling current productivity levels through the scaling up of agro-technologies. This will include investing in access to markets, and promoting agricultural research and development.

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