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World Food Day - Transforming African Agriculture Thursday, October 12, 2017
World Food Day - Transforming African Agriculture
World Food Day - Transforming African Agriculture
Oct 12, 2017
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Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina is President of the African Development Bank
Farmer in a field on the outskirts of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire, Oct 12 2017 (IPS) - The African rural world is one I know well. I grew out of rural poverty myself and went to a rural school without electricity and lived in a village where we had to walk for kilometers to find water. We had to study after dark with candles or kerosene lanterns. By God’s grace, I made it out of poverty to where
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