150,000 call for action on hunger
Yesterday I delivered over 150,000 signatures to Stephen O’Brien MP, the Prime Minister’s Envoy & Special Representative to the Sahel.
12 million people are still at risk in the Sahel region of West Africa due to the worst droughts for 60 years, so we wanted the UK government to hear our call to end the cycle of crisis and expand the New Alliance.
The New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security will “increase responsible domestic and foreign private investments in African agriculture, take innovations that can enhance agricultural productivity to scale, and reduce the risk borne by vulnerable economies and communities.”
It’s an ambitious commitment, and although the petition is now out of our hands, we’ll be sure to hold the UK government and New Alliance partners to account.
150,000 people are watching, while 12 million wait for these words to become actions.
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20/11/2012 at 2:06 am
West African sub region is rich in mineral resources,crop able vast farm land and large numbers of human capital resources that can put an end to Hunger crisis,Food Insecurity across Africa.
Extreme poverty are man-made strategic instrument for modern slavery.The historical battle of the under development of African AgriBusiness are consequences emanating from lack of Effective-Implementative funding process, which the grassroots farmers can hardly have access, for their immediate production needs. If a policy instrument can be advocated for,that state.”ALL POLITICAL CANDIDATE MUST HAVE AN AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT AS ONE OF THE CRITERIA FOR QUALIFICATION TO CONTEST AN ELECTION IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA”This we believe will encourage more youth who are the future leaders,to exploit the vast potentials in the agricultural sector.