The afternoon session featured panelists Julie Howard (Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa), Peter Hartmann (IITA), Robert Richardson (Michigan State University) and Akinwumi Adesina (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa). Panelists and participants discussed agricultural potential in Africa, the role of agricultural research and development and extension services, regional integration, international development cooperation, investing in Africa, and land, rural credit availability and gender equity.
The sixteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16) convened for its fifth day on Friday, 9 May, 2008, at United Nations headquarters in New York. Delegates continued their consideration of the thematic cluster for the 2008/2009 implementation cycle - agriculture, rural development, land, desertification, drought and Africa.
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