Regional Bio-Energy Summit [Abuja - Nigeria]

FARA (www.fara-africa.org), in conjunction with the Nigerian government, recently hosted a conference, tagged: Regional Dialogue on Renewable Energy Technology for Increased Agricultural Productivity and Sustainable Development.

Experts from Nigeria and across the globe exchanged ideas and action plans on ways that renewable and sustainable technologies could:

a) rejuvenate agricultural productivity in Africa, which has been in regression in the last 2 decades.

b)enable Africa, with its rich endowment of abundant natural, mineral and human resources, produce enough food to feed itself and generate foreign exchange earnings from the export/sale of surpluses.

R-L: Dave Agbakoba (Solar Jooce) with Prince Ike E Ubaka(Deputy National President, All Farmers Association of Nigeria - AFAN)

Dave and Kenton Dashiell of IITA, with Dr A.B Salifu (Director general CSIR -Ghana) in background

Panelists, Day 2. L-R: Dave Agbakoba (Nigeria); representative from Morroco; Gifty Baaba Asmah (Ghana); Dipal Barua (Bangladesh); Hervé Azemtsa (Cameroun)