Beth Dunford
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Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, @AFDB_Group
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President, African Development Bank Group. Former Honourable Minister of Agriculture, Nigeria. World Food Prize Winner, 2017. Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate,2019.
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#AFSH24 : The African Development Bank Group advocates for #agritech scaling, partnerships and affordable #fertilizer access at the ongoing Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit in Nairobi, #Kenya : bit.ly/3UR0lI7 #FeedAfrica
The African Development Bank Group's Youth Entrepreneurship & Innovation Multi-Donor Trust Fund allocates $1 million grant to support entrepreneurship capacity building, business skills for 1,000+ young women, youth with special needs and other youth in Ghana and Senegal.
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At #AFSH24 , African Development Bank Group brings enthusiastic support, technical expertise and convening power to highlight the crucial role of agricultural technologies, #fertilizer and soil health to elevate sustainable agricultural growth.
Join us in Nairobi, or online👇🏼 from top of the hour.
Today at #AFSH24 's Tsavo Hall: Leadership for Agriculture, an initiative led by African Development Bank Group Gates Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, to host discussion on nexus of fertilizer, soil health and post-Dakar 2 Country Food & Agriculture Delivery Compacts.
Join us: zoom.us/webinar/regist…
🌍Meet our Keynote speaker and #TAAT champion, Dr Martin Fregene , Director, Agriculture and Agroindustry, African Development Bank Group.
He will be talking about #partnerships , funding for development, #soils , agricultural #technologies , and #agronomic practices that go with it.
It will be both a…
In Kano State, Nigeria, Fullmark Group Limited Chairman Sriram Venkateswaran showed our visiting African Development Bank Group team innovative practices at a mill processing agro commodities. Operated by Fullmark subsidiary Amarava Agro Processors, the mill has capacity to convert waste to energy.
The African Development Bank Group and Department of State are developing a strategic partnership to align initiatives in support of the African Union Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan, and Soils Initiative for Africa.
Join the conversation at #AFSH24 Tuesday, or via Zoom: zoom.us/webinar/regist…
I'm looking forward to participating in the African Development Bank Group Leadership for Agriculture-organized event on the sidelines of #AFSH24 . Join our conversation about the role of fertilizer and soil health in implementing our post-Dakar 2 Country Food & Agriculture Delivery Compacts.
.@TheFMNgroup Kano State subsidiary Gen. Man. Adrian Naidoo says 80% of wheat processed at this factory was grown in Nigeria. Increasingly, wheat milled here comes from farms benefitting from African Development Bank Group African Emergency Food Production Facility support to Nigerian agriculture.
We thank Dr. Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, Secretary to the Kano State Government, and his team for the recent opportunity to discuss issues of mutual interest - including ways to boost mechanization, sustainability and value addition to #agriculture in Kano State, Nigeria.
#FeedAfrica
We caught up with former African Development Bank Group Dir. Dr. Abdu Mukhtar, recently named Nigeria's National Coordinator of the Presidential 'Unlocking Healthcare Value-Chain Initiative.' We're exploring ways to support the Federal Ministry of Health, NIGERIA initiative tasked with revitalizing Nigeria's healthcare.
What can be done to scale up processing of, as well as value addition to, climate-smart, home-grown crops like wheat and rice in Nigeria?
We're in Kano State, asking questions, listening to best practices explored, sharing how African Development Bank Group #agriculture programs lead to #FeedAfrica
In Nigeria, African Development Bank Group is partnering with Government and private sector on programs to boost food production. We are also eager to hear from smallholder farmers and we thank those in Kadani town, Kano State, who sat down with us to share their challenges and stories of success.
Our #AfDB delegation met with Hon. Muhammad Ali Pate, Nigeria's Coordinating Minister of Health & Social Welfare. Discussion ranged from how African Development Bank Group can support a diversity of partnership health care investments in Nigeria, and AfDB's Strategy for Quality Health Infrastructure.
Today, we welcomed a delegation from the African Development Bank Group African Development Bank Group, led by Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Beth Dunford. We explored ways to enhance our existing partnership and potential collaborations, particularly in Science,…
Our African Development Bank Group delegation met with Nigeria's Honorable Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman. We explored ways to provide #youth with learning opportunities, skills and competencies to compete in a changing labor landscape. We're looking forward to further collaboration!
