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category: Food and Agriculture, Reports, Rights and SocietyAfrica can feed itself- New study reveals 0 Dec 8 ARUSHA – The study titled The New Harvest, Agricultural Innovation in Africa, led by Harvard University Professor Calestous Juma, is in contrast with entrenched, gloomy perceptions of the continent, and present a clear prescription for transforming sub-SaharanAfrica’s agriculture to improve the economy. Preliminary results of the studies, financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, were adopted earlier this year by the 19-member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the continent’s largest trading bloc. Juma, who is a professor of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs, said with its vast untapped resources, Africa enjoys tremendous potential and opportunities but remained characterized by persistent food shortages, which may be worsened by climate change unless efforts to change directio...

Tuesday 7 December 2010 Africa Can Feed Itself- New study reveals A new study has revealed that Africa, the world’s poorest continent can make the transition from a hungry importer to self-sufficiency in a single generation. By Lilian Museka ARUSHA---The study titled The New Harvest, Agricultural Innovation in Africa, led by Harvard University Professor Calestous Juma, is in contrast with entrenched, gloomy perceptions of the continent, and present a clear prescription for transforming sub-SaharanAfrica’s agriculture to improve the economy. Preliminary results of the studies, financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, were adopted earlier this year by the 19-member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the continent’s largest trading bloc. Juma, who is a professor of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs, said with its vast untapped resources, Africa enjoys tremendous potential and opportuniti...

Tuesday 7 December 2010 Africa Can Feed Itself- New study reveals A new study has revealed that Africa, the world’s poorest continent can make the transition from a hungry importer to self-sufficiency in a single generation. By Lilian Museka ARUSHA---The study titled The New Harvest, Agricultural Innovation in Africa, led by Harvard University Professor Calestous Juma, is in contrast with entrenched, gloomy perceptions of the continent, and present a clear prescription for transforming sub-SaharanAfrica’s agriculture to improve the economy. Preliminary results of the studies, financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, were adopted earlier this year by the 19-member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the continent’s largest trading bloc. Juma, who is a professor of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs, said with its vast untapped resources, Africa enjoys tremendous potential and opportuniti...