Inmarsat, the world leader in global mobile satellite communications, has joined forces with RESOLVE, the Washington DC based non-profit environmental and health organisation, to develop a revolutionary, satellite-enabled solution to safeguard endangered wildlife across the African continent.
Three completely sold-out evenings for the first appearance on the African Continent at Durban, Cape Town, and Johannesburg. The across-the-globe-unparalleled motorsport show, where forceful BKT tires bite the most adverse grounds, leaves a deep impression in the hearts of thousands of fans.
Following the publication of the Task Force for Rural Africa report - an agri-food and rural agenda for the new ‘Africa-Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs' -, an online consultation was launched by the European Commission to gather feedback on the report and its key recommendations.
On 29 March 2019, three initiatives were decided on, as part of the implementation of the ‘African Union Continental strategy for Geographical Indications (GIs) in Africa 2018-2023’.
According to the recommendations of this group of African and European experts, Africa and the EU should develop a partnership operating at three levels: people to people, business to business, and government to government. It would institute a multi-stakeholder dialogue at all levels, starting locally, and enable a closer connection between African and European societies, business communities and governments.
At the High-level forum Africa-Europe 2018, the Task Force Rural Africa presented its recommendations for sustainable development and job creation in rural Africa. Established to advise on how best to develop Africa’s agriculture and food sectors and its rural economy, the Task Force proposed to improve access to private finance for small and medium size agriculture and food businesses and to mainstream environmental sustainability and promote climate action, among other recommendations.
The Task force rural Africa is holding its fourth meeting today and tomorrow, 11th and 12th October, in Brussels. Trade, value chains, regional market integration and sanitary and phytosanitary standards will be at the centre of discussions. In addition, this afternoon African and European representatives from NGOs, regional agricultural associations and other institutional and private organisations will debate with the members of the task force.
With a population expected to double by 2050 from 1.2 billion to 2.4 billion predominantly young people, the African continent will need to foster job creation and economic growth through sustainable development.
The scale of modernization under way in Thailand’s farming sector is clear from the latest “Chart of the month” from DLG-Agrifuture Insights, which shows that, on average, about 70 per cent of farmers in the country intend investing in their businesses. Thai milk producers are particularly likely to invest, with 90 percent ready to spend money on their dairy farming enterprises. Research carried out for the new knowledge brand and platform for international trend analysis in the agricultural sector from the German Agriculture Society (DLG) also revealed very high levels of investment in Zambia, and lower, but nonetheless encouraging, levels of investment in Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Russia
A new expert group is to be created by the European Commission to provide expertise, advice and possible recommendations on enhancing the role of the EU agri-food and agro-industrial sector in the sustainable economic development of Africa.
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