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Opening remarks by Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina President of the African Development Bank Group  – Global Gender Summit at Kigali, Rwanda –  African Development Bank Group 2019.11.25 Welcome to the Global Gender Summit! I wish to welcome all participants, ministers and leaders from around the world to this event organised by the African Development Bank, […]

World Food Prize and World Hunger Fighters Foundation Launch Fellowship for Young African Agribusiness Innovators African Development Bank Group 2019.10.18 The World Food Prize Foundation and the newly launched World Hunger Fighters Foundation are partnering to provide year-long fellowships for young African food innovators and entrepreneurs. The World Hunger Fighters Foundation will award annual Borlaug-Adesina

AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina receives Emeka Anyaoku lifetime achievement award  Eagle Online 2019.10.10 Former Commonwealth Secretary-General Emeka Anyaoku has presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to the African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, describing him and the Bank’s work as “legendary, unprecedented and worthy of emulation.” The Hallmarks of Labour Foundation presented the Outstanding International Icon

The spread of hunger and terrorists Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the President of African Development Bank When you look at the whole issue of peace and security, take the case of another Nigeria. I come from Nigeria, there was a cast lake over there, in the 1960s, it was roughly about 25,000 kilometers square wide. Today,

Food supply and Peace Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the President of African Development Bank If you take human development and agriculture, it really makes me very sad. Every time that I see wars and conflict and you go and look the areas that have the highest number of hungry people in the world, and also the

All of These Require Africa to Feed Itself Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the President of African Development Bank So, for me, when I became the president of the bank, the question I ask myself is “Where’s the poor? Where are they?” Majority of the poor, about 70%, almost 80% of the poor in Africa, they are

The Great Challenge Without Fear Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the President of African Development Bank I am somebody that is never afraid to take big decisions. My view is that, if you take big decisions or big steps, with good intention of helping the poor, God helps you to succeed. Because, it’s not about you. it’s

Akinwumi Adesina to launch foundation against hunger, poverty PM News Nigeria 2019.07.15. Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank (AfDB), is to launch World Hunger Fighter’s Prize and Fellowship foundation with a view to ending global hunger. A statement issued by the bank on Sunday in Abuja, said that the foundation would also work toward

What is “GOVERNANCE” Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the President of African Development Bank Governance is about the ability to transform the lives of people.  Not in the far future, but bringing that far future to now.  So, leaders are supposed to be restless people. Restless, because, the people that need water, the people that need food,