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FANRPAN Annual High Level Regional Food Security Policy Dialogue 2010

Theme: Livestock & Fisheries Policies for Food Security and Trade in a Changing Climate

30 August - 3 September 2010, Windhoek, Namibia

This week, Namibia is playing host to the 2010 FANRPAN Regional Food Security Policy Dialogue, where over 200 policymakers, farmers, agricultural product dealers, scientists and non-governmental organisations from across Africa and the world will gather to address African priorities on food security and climate change and its impacts on agricultural development, natural resource management and rural livelihoods.

Food security in Africa is still only an aspiration. With one-quarter of the world's arable land, Africa produces only 10 per cent of its total global output. More than 265 million people are still chronically hungry, yet Africa is estimated to hold 60 per cent of the world's remaining uncultivated farmland.

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Hope and progress in the developing world, despite daunting challenges

23 July 2010

Projects that empower people in developing countries with a means of expression are key to helping communities combat hunger and poverty themselves. Guest columnists Danielle Nierenberg and Molly Theobald argue that the people are capable and ready, they just need the tools.

Special to The Times

FOR most Seattle residents, global hunger seems like an impossible problem to solve. Reports of famine in Niger or the thousands at risk for starvation and malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, seem not only far away but impossible to change. A local organization, however, begs to differ.

FANRPAN attends the 3rd joint meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources

15 July 2010 - 16 July 2010

The Ministers of Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources in the COMESA Member States met in Lusaka, Zambia on 15th July 2010 to review progress on the agricultural sector in the region. The Ministerial meeting was preceded by the third joint meeting of the Technical Committee on Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources which was held on 12 - 13 July 2010. The purpose of the technical meeting was to review the implementation of the regional agricultural, environmental and natural resources development programmes in the COMESA region and prepare a report for Ministers.

WARM Project Planning Meetings

July 2010

Dr David Kamchacha, FANRPAN Director of Inputs and Output Markets presented an overview of FANRPAN; this was then followed by a presentation on the project concept document by WARM Project Coordinator, Ms Sithembile Ndema. In her presentation she highlighted and the different roles of the partners and the linkages in terms of activities were clarified.


Climate Change Initiative

Africa-wide Civil Society Climate Change Initiative for Policy Dialogues (ACCID)



Calendar



Upcoming events:

30 August - 3 September 2010
FANRPAN Annual High Level Regional Food Security Policy Dialogue 2010
 
Thematic thrusts FANRPAN press releases FANRPAN country nodes
FANRPAN launches project to strengthen the capacity of women farmers' influence in agricultural policy and development programmes in Southern Africa
The project, Women Accessing Realigned Markets (WARM), seeks to strengthen women farmers' ability to advocate for appropriate agricultural policies and programmes.

Angola Angola
Botswana Botswana
Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC
Lesotho Lesotho
Mozambique Madagascar
Malawi Malawi
Mauritius Mauritius
Mozambique Mozambique
Namibia Namibia
South Africa South Africa
Swaziland Swaziland
Tanzania Tanzania
Zambia Zambia
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe

Highlights

Africa has the means to feed itself but does it have the support - and the will?
Africa has a quarter of the world's arable land but produces only a tenth of our food. On the eve of a pan-African conference on food security, Lindiwe Sibanda asks how African farmers can turn things round

Soul Beat Edutainment article on the FANRPAN project: Women Accessing Realigned Markets (WARM)
WARM is a project aiming to strengthen the capacity of women farmers to influence agricultural policy development in southern Africa.
The Soul Beat 158 - Theatre for Social Change.

The CGIAR Award for Outstanding Agricultural Journalism 2010
Fighting for Africa's food security FANRPAN Associate – Freelance Journalist, Busani Bafana scoops the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Award for Excellence in Agricultural Science Journalism.

Fighting for Africa's food security Fighting for Africa's food security
This week, the One Young World conference is being held in London. Young people from around the world have met to discuss the biggest challenges facing the planet, with the guidance of eminent figures such as Kofi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Alejandro Toledo, the former president of Peru.

FANRPAN represented at European Development Days (EDD) Video clip: Dr Lindiwe Sibanda, CEO of FANRPAN, on agriculture and climate change


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