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Increased investments help propel African agriculture growth
Prof. Monty Jones however observed that “All these good technologies that we’ve developed unfortunately are doing well only in isolated areas. We’ve not been able to translate these into continent-wide impact and that is the problem that we encounter”.
He therefore believes the media has a role to play to disseminate agricultural knowledge and information to farmers and other interest groups to achieve the desired impact.
FARA, in collaboration with the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), held a press conference in Accra, Ghana on “Strengthening research and media partnerships in an effort to help feed 1 billion Africans”.
Samuel Mikenga of the CTA emphasized that knowledge circulation is critical for the adoption of new agricultural technologies in order to attain the goals under the CAADP IV.
He said the CTA looking at “the whole knowledge circulation system” in its partnerships to strengthen capacity to advance food and nutritional security.
