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AGRA Chair gets a standing ovation in Iowa


Des Moines, Iowa, USA
October 20, 2014

AGRA Chairman Strive Masiyiwa was the keynote luncheon speaker at the World Food Prize in Iowa yesterday.  Speaking to over 1,000 people in attendance from around the world he held the crowd spellbound with a comparison between African and US agriculture.  He said that agriculture was the key to the economic development of Africa and there was now a full court press, under AGRA's leadership, to bring the Green Revolution to Africa.

Here is a slide deck that he used during his presentation

Finishing Dr.Borlaug’s Unfinished Business
AGRA and Green Revolution 2.0 in Africa

World Food Prize Luncheon Address
By Strive Masiyiwa, Chairman, AGRA
16 October, 2014
Des Moines, Iowa



More news from:
    . AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa)
    . World Food Prize


Website: http://www.agra-alliance.org

Published: October 20, 2014

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