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African agriculture set to do its green revolution?
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A private sector-led drive to contribute to a 'Green Revolution' in Africa took a step forward early this month at the first ever edition of the African Green Revolution Forum held in Accra, Ghana. According to Akin Adesina, the executive co-producer of the Forum, the event is the first time "a very clear action plan on what needs to accelerate the pace of the Green Revolution in terms of technologies, policies, finance and infrastructure investments" is laid out. As he puts it, the Forum was neither a conference nor a mere workshop,"it was a 'doing-shop'."
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Land Grab Versus Green Revolution
It seems that there are two competing forces at work in Africa today. On the one hand, the Green Revolution Movement is so important to the small and subsistence farmer, and to the nations.
On the other hand, the "land grab" by the EU, China, United States and India threatens to take away the land from the farmers, sending them to the cities or to work for the buyers of the land,
For agood summary of this issue, see the article, "EU and US Biofuels Rules Driving Third World Land Grab," at http://bit.ly/afK4LI.
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