African Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM)
Continental
US$35 million
(target)
*US$ 8 million
Stage 3 : Programme/Project Structuring and Promotion
Following the Abuja Declaration(2006),NEPAD has worked closely with the
AUC and the
AfDB to establish the AFFM as a Special Fund to support production,
distribution,
procurement, and use of fertilizer in Africa. Funds will be allocated to
projects through country
roundtable processes.
AfDB
that was from p.47 (AU/NEPAD AFRICAN ACTION PLAN 2010‐2015) (sorry - it
didn't translate well).
Then we have:
AU/NEPAD Task Force on Rising Food Prices
It makes no sense to me. There is supposed to be more food but the
prices are going up. This is the same investment structure utilized by
the World Bank and Monsanto in the northern areas (the Rift Valley) -
buy seed (patented GMO), fertilizer, machines, don't forget the
ga-a-aszs, or the pesticides. The bank is here to lend you into servitude.
There appears to be no organic culture representation, no system to
re-institute cultures that have been displaced by so much death and
destruction. There also appears to be a "mopping-up" in progress after
all the years of dare I say "prodded" antagonisms and transgressions of
and toward humanity.
And the drum beats on.
Darryl
On 03/09/2012 6:36 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
I'm right now in a guest house in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso,
the third poorest country in the world as measured by the World Bank among
others... On the edge of the Sahel and bordered by some of the
currently/recently unsettled countries of the region--Mali, Ivory Coast,
Niger... I'm doing some background work for a significant Community
Informatics project that the e-Africa division of NEPAD/the African Union
wishes to undertake throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
This afternoon between appointments I went for a walk in the centre of the
city towards the Grand Mosque, a very Moorish structure in desert coloured
sandstone. It was around 4 pm and as I was walking I came across rows of
men undertaking one of their daily prayers only this time in public led by
what looked like a lay preacher. As I walked further I kept coming across
these street corner prayer sessions--perhaps 3 or 4 within a three block
radius and not more than two blocks from the main Mosque in Ouga.
This evening I'm back at the guest house doing things on the reasonably good
Internet connection.
It is getting late--now it is about 1.30 am local time.
I've just e-published the most recent issue of the online Journal of
Community Informatics.
http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/editor/issueToc/30
Glocality: Thinking about Community Informatics and the Local in the Global
and the Global in the Local.
For the last half hour or so I've been hearing the sounds of jet planes
flying low overhead--back and forth, back and forth. At first I thought they
might be commercial planes coming in to land--but this is Burkina Faso where
there are probably no more than a dozen flights in and out a day and I would
guess none of them are scheduled for 1 am.
Mike
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