Ad-hoc expert group meeting on agriculture and rural transformation in Africa
This welcome address delivered by Mr. Josué Dioné Director, Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (FSSD), UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the Ad-hoc Expert Group Meeting on Agriculture and Rural Transformation in Africa. Mr. Dioné, on his remarks highlighted that, the importance of agriculture for development in Africa to those of you assembled here would be preaching to the converted. The majority of African countries, particularly those south of the Sahara, the fate of agriculture determines to a significant extent that of the overall economy. This is so because of the strong backward and forward linkages between agriculture and the other productive and service sectors of the economy. ECA's work over the last five years has focused on advocating for an approach to a structural transformation of African agriculture primarily articulated around systematic efforts to develop coordinated value chains for selected strategic food and agricultural commodities within a regional integration perspective.
| Format: | Speech biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2007-04
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/31138 |
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