TFAA 2012 nominee chairs Agriculture committee at the Euro-African Youth Parliament in Germany
The Euro Youth African Parliament (EYPA) will be holding in Berlin, Germany between March 27 – April 4, 2014. This event will be the first conference of its kind with over 60 alumni of the European Youth Parliament (EYP) will come together in Berlin and meet 60 participants from Africa.
One of the delegates expected to be at the conference is Sola Amusan, a 2012 TFAA nominee in the Agriculture category of Entrepreneur of the Year. Amusan will be chairing the agriculture, food security and rural affairs committee with co-chair, Megan Smith representing Ireland.
The EYPA is a project mutually organised by the German Schwarzkopf Foundation based in Berlin together with the Youth Bridge Foundation from Accra, Ghana.
Transforming Africa's Agriculture for Shared Prosperity
Participants at the 10th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) partnership meeting has recognised CAADP as the expression of reclaimed ownership of agricultural policy by African States and citizens of the continent.
CAADP is the African Union and NEPAD continent-wide structurewithin which African countries plan to accelerate economic growth, eliminate hunger, reduce poverty and enhance food and nutrition security, through agriculture-led development. To date, fifty out of fifty-four countries in Africa are using the CAADP structure in agricultural planning.
The 10th CAADPP Partnership Platform, which started on Tuesday 18 March 2014 in Durban, South Africa, has evolved to become a forum for those in the partnership to report on and discuss progress in a number of areas including collective financing and other public and private funding instruments.
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India to unlock Africa's agribusiness potential
India has begun moves to help Africa set up agri-business centres, seed incubators, modern laboratories and joint projects as part of an enhanced partnership in agriculture to achieve food and nutrition security, promote entrepreneurship and create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030.
Proposals for such sectoral cooperation will be bounced this week at the Asia-Africa Agribusiness Forum meeting in which agriculture ministers of some 15 African countries will take part. The details, official sources said, could be worked out and decisions taken at the Africa-India Summit this year in Delhi.
Africa is well-endowed with resources but it lacks much of the expertise to unlock their commercial potential by restructuring its agriculture industry to a more profitable form of agribusiness.
Kenya seeks Food and Drug Control Administration's e-governance programme
Gujarat government's e-governance initiative has generated interest from Kenya's drug regulators. Impressed by the systematic performance of Xtended Licensing and Laboratory Note (XLN), developed and adopted by Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA), Kenya is likely to introduce a similar model in the African country.
A delegation led by Dr Ahmed Mohamed, director of inspection and surveillance team from the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) had visited Gujarat FDCA earlier this month. The self-licensing software has enabled the FDCA to regulate the sales and manufacturing aspects related to drugs, food and cosmetics, issuance of licenses, among other things. The software enables online registration of all the pharmacists and chemists, preventing multiple illegal enrollment of pharmacists to ensure public safety.
Read more: Kenya seeks Food and Drug Control Administration's e-governance programme
