Webinar | Will Agricultural Growth Poles and Corridors Brighten Africa’s Future?
Join us for a webinar on Thursday, March 29, 2018 to discuss key challenges and opportunities of agricultural growth poles and corridors
African governments are deploying a new development tool: growth poles aimed at kickstarting the shift from subsistence to commercial agriculture.
Over a dozen agricultural growth poles, or “agropoles,” were established in the past four years, bringing the total to 36 growth poles and 9 corridors since 2002. They cover at least 3.5 million hectares of land in 23 countries, IISD research has found.
Please join us for a webinar on Thursday, March 29, 2018 to discuss key challenges and opportunities of agricultural growth poles and corridors. Specifically: are they a sustainable response to promote agro-industrial development and to contribute to food and nutritional security and the fight against poverty?
For a quick overview of the topic, read this blog. For a deeper dive, read our policy brief.
We invite you to register when you join the webinar online.
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