{"id":41688,"date":"2012-05-31T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=41688"},"modified":"2012-05-31T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:00:12","slug":"afdb-launches-initiative-to-invest-in-agribusiness-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=41688","title":{"rendered":"AfDB Launches Initiative to Invest in Agribusiness in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>This initiative has the potential to catalyze unprecedented levels of investments into the agribusiness sector throughout the African continent<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ARUSHA, Tanzania, May 30, 2012\/ <strong>&#8212; <\/strong>The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afdb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.afdb.org<\/a>) launched today, at the AfDB Annual General Meetings, a Fund of Funds focused on agribusiness investments on the African continent. This transformative initiative will address growing food security concerns and unleash the largely untapped potential of the African agriculture and agribusiness sectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The launch of the initiative comes as African agriculture and food security gain increasing prominence on the global agenda, with the recent G8 Summit in Camp David pledging to promote investments in sustainable agriculture on the continent. Speaking from Camp David, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka stated: \u201cThere was broad consensus that it is the right thing to do, it is doable and it\u2019s good for the world. The Summit was about growth, and growth in Africa begins with agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cThis initiative has the potential to catalyze unprecedented levels of investments into the agribusiness sector throughout the African continent. The potential will of course only materialize through efficient and responsive implementation. I have no doubt that with the combined experience of the international fund manager,\u00a0 its local African banking partner, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)as environmental advisor, and AfDB&#8217;s oversight as sponsor, this transformative goal will be achieved in the medium term,\u201d says Mouhamadou Niang, Manager at AfDB\u2019s Private Sector Department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Fund of Funds will be in compliance with a state-of-the-art environmental and social management system, currently being developed by AfDB in cooperation with the WWF. The initiative is in line with AfDB\u2019s strategy to support private sector development on the continent. It is complementary to current efforts undertaken by AfDB\u2019s in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in the context of the African Agribusiness and Agro-industries Development Initiative (3ADI).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the first initiative of this nature on the continent, this Fund of funds\u00a0 will catalyze investment into the agribusiness sector with the ultimate goal of inclusive job creation and promoting innovative, environmentally sustainable approaches throughout the\u00a0 agribusiness value chain.<\/p>\n<p><em>Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of the African Development Bank.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This initiative has the potential to catalyze unprecedented levels of investments into the agribusiness sector throughout the African continent ARUSHA, Tanzania, May 30, 2012\/ &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,1],"tags":[816],"class_list":["post-41688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-uncategorized","tag-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}