An anti-poverty advocacy organization says the solution to come of Africa's largest economic threats is to make agriculture a promising career choice for the mushrooming population of young Africans and to make credit available to women who do much of the continent's farming.
The ONE campaign recently launched a project called Do Agric, It Pays, to urge African governments to keep their commitment to spend at least 10 percent of their national budgets on agricultural investment. The campaign's launch in Addis Ababa coincided with the African Union Summit which opened January 30 and has declared 2014 the Year of Agriculture in Africa. READ MORE
Source: Allafrica.com #IFAMAFRICA
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