{"id":11380,"date":"2009-09-26T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2017-07-28T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T18:05:10","slug":"president-kagame-speaks-at-unga-food-security-event-new-york-26-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=11380","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame speaks at UNGA food security event &#8211; New York, 26 September 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>President Kagame on Saturday participated in the UNGA Partnering for Food Security event co-hosted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in New York. Also speaking at the event was Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh.<br \/>\nPresident Kagame noted that the positive stories from several African countries illustrate the progress that is happening on the continent and pointed out that \u201cthe 2009 G8 Summit that reflected on food security and pledged substantive amount of financial resources came at a time when our continent is in a much better position to take advantage of these opportunities\u201d.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame spoke on Rwanda\u2019s experience on the journey to food security, saying that the country\u2019s efforts combined with lessons learned from elsewhere were having a real impact.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Clinton described Rwanda as \u201ca stand-out example in country-led planning\u201d referring to Rwanda\u2019s strategy through the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Program, completed using the government\u2019s own resources and the results achieved in a relatively short period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Kagame on Saturday participated in the UNGA Partnering for Food Security event co-hosted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in New York. Also speaking at the event was Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh. President Kagame noted that the positive stories from several African countries illustrate the progress that is happening on the continent and pointed out that \u201cthe 2009 G8 Summit that reflected on food security and pledged substantive amount of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11382,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions\/11382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}