Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa

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The Partnership is a research and advocacy organization founded in 2000 with a mission to cut hunger and poverty in Africa by promoting sustainable, Africa-led, agriculture based economic activity in rural Africa.

The Partnership believes that more and better investments in agricultural development are the key to increasing overall economic growth and reducing hunger and poverty in Africa.

Coffee, Commerce, and Communities: Small Scale Agricultural Development in East Africa

February 05, 2010

Presented by :

The Program on America and the Global Economy (PAGE)
and The Africa Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center

Excerpts from the US Global Leadership Coalition's FY 11 Budget

February 02, 2010

Thanks to our partners at the US Global Leadership Coalition and AIARD, below are excerpts from the US Global Leadership Coalition's FY 11 budget
update that are of special interest to us. If you want a full budget report
go to usglc.org.

African leaders approve new agency to replace NEPAD Secretariat

February 02, 2010

14th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union approves the integration of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) into the structures and processes of the African Union including the establishment of the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA)

Sen. Richard Lugar delivered a major address on foreign aid policy reform and food security at the Society for Int'l Development

January 29, 2010

Lugar called for a "unity-of-purpose" to achieve food security and other foreign assistance objectives. He said:

“We need to be unified around common purposes for which we can marshal the appropriate level of resources and variety of approaches. There will be situations that call for the involvement of multiple agencies under the direction of one government entity. But, the decision to involve other government actors should be driven by the purpose. Such is clearly the case now in

Haiti

. The

U.S.

government and international actors are unified for the purpose of disaster response. That response involves the coordination of hundreds of organizations to rescue people and to provide basic elements needed for survival. At some point soon, the mission will evolve from disaster response to reconstruction to development. We should be asking whether we will be able to maintain a unity-of-purpose even as that purpose changes.

Partnership Board Vice Chair Abdoulaye Diop named WFP Country Director to Malawi

January 29, 2010

We are delighted to share the news that Ambassador Abdoulaye Diop, Vice Chair of the Partnership's Board of Directors, has been named World Food Programme Representative and Country Director to Malawi. He will take up his new post in Lilongwe in mid-February.

Former Partnership Board Member Ann Tutwiler appointed USDA's Coordinator for the Global Food Security Initiative

January 26, 2010

We are very pleased to announce that former Partnership Board member Ann Tutwiler has been named USDA’s Coordinator for the Global Food Security Initiative. She will serve in this position out of the Office of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

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