By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member See photos from Salzburg Why didn’t we know about the current food crisis until the urban poor of Africa took to the streets in…
SALZBURG DAY 2: DATA AND LEARNING DIVIDE
SALZBURG DAY 2: RAINBOW REVOLUTIONS AND SILVER BULLETS
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member See photos from Salzburg The conference may be titled Toward a Green Revolution in Africa, but the colour of the revolution began to change…
SALZBURG DAY 2: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member See photos from Salzburg Guten Morgan, and welcome once again to Salzburg, where the clouds have descended upon the city, but inside the Schloss…
SALZBURG DAY 1: AFRICAN CONTEXT IS ALL
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member See photos from SalzburgA Green Revolution in Africa must be grounded firmly in an African context, taking African biodiversity, climates, cultures and peoples into…
SALZBURG DAY 1: WOMEN ARE THE KEY
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member If there is going to be one issue that everyone agrees on this week it looks set to be that women are the key…
SALZBURG DAY 1: EMERGING THEMES – EQUITY
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Equity is set to be one of the hottest topics of debate this week. How the benefits of an African Green Revolution are distributed…
SALZBURG DAY 1: KOFI ANNAN CALLS FOR A “UNIQUELY AFRICAN GREEN REVOLUTION”
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Welcome to Salzburg, where this afternoon Kofi Annan is opening the Toward a Green Revolution in Africa conference with a speech that has called…
SALZBURG: VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN AGRICULTURE
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member As 60 plus delegates from governments, farmer organisations, NGOs, business, academia and donor foundations across Africa and the wider world make thier way to…
SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR: TOWARD A ‘GREEN REVOLUTION’ IN AFRICA
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member There is a clear need for a new vision for agricultural development in Africa that can deal with the complexities of agriculture in diverse…