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THE Africa Food Prize Committee and partners will on Friday, February 17, induct its new chair and launch the 2023 call for nominations at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the sidelines of the ongoing African Union Summit.
Africa Food Prize chair emeritus, Olusegun Obasanjo, will officially hand over to Jakaya Kikwete. The ceremony will be presided over by Hailermariam Dessalegn, former Prime minister of Ethiopia, chair, AGRA Board and chair, AGRF Partners Group.
Obasanjo started his tenure as Africa Food Prize Committee Chair in 2016 and over this time has elevated recognition of the prize.
The Africa Food Prize is the preeminent award recognizing an outstanding individual or institution that is leading the effort to change the reality of farming in Africa—from a struggle to survive to a business that thrives.
Now in its seventh year, previous winners have included: Professor Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, a Ghanaian plant geneticist; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT); researchers André Bationo from Burkina Faso and Dr Catherine Nakalembe from Uganda.
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