Presentation and discussion
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Date: September 14, 2021 – 16:00 Berlin (CEST) | 10:00 New York (EDT) | 14:00 Bamako (GMT) | 16:00 Johannesburg
(SAST) | 17:00 Dar es Salaam (EAT)
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and its technical fixes play a key role at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). AGRA‘s President, Dr Agnes Kalibata, for instance, is a Special Envoy to the Summit. AGRA, registered in the US, was founded in 2006 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others with the vision of doubling agricultural yields, the incomes of 30 million small-scale food producer households, and halving both hunger and poverty in 20 African countries by 2020. In their recently released background paper, civil society organizations from Burkina Faso, Germany, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia unmask the AGRA myth: AGRA’s approach has failed.
Speakers from different African countries, Germany, and the US will report on the AGRA threats to smallscale food producers and showcase the failure of the billion-dollar program.
Speakers:
Million Belay AFSA, Uganda
Timothy Wise IATP, USA
Anne Maina BIBA, Kenia
Mariann Bassey ERA/FoEN, Nigeria
Lena Bassermann INKOTA-netzwerk, Deutschland
Roman Herre FIAN Deutschland
Moderation:
Jan Urhahn, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Josephine Koch, Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung
Languages:
German, French, and English (with simultaneous interpretation).
This Event belongs to the 4-part online series from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung „Our Food, Our Story – Reclaim the Food Systems Narrative“.