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Article: South Africa: Pan-African development bank urges small-scale farming revolution.
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- August 8, 2008
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Byline: Mamta03
Regional multilateral development bank African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has acknowledged the urgent need for a smallholder agricultural revolution in Africa as the continents best option for tackling the escalating global food crisis.
The global food crisis was the focus of a United Nations (UN) Emergency Food Crisis Summit held in Rome, Italy, in June.
Speaking at the summit, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka, said that the escalating global food crisis was a major setback, threatening to throw millions into poverty and overturn back many of the gains in human development and macroeconomic stabilisation achieved during the ...