{"id":5002,"date":"2016-09-07T22:26:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2017-07-15T12:39:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T12:39:28","slug":"president-kagame-attends-the-african-green-revolution-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=5002","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame attends the African Green Revolution Forum\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nairobi, 8 September 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame today joined a panel session with President Uhuru Kenyatta and African Union Commissioner for Rural Development and Agriculture at the 2016 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Nairobi Kenya. Themed Seize the Moment: Africa Rising through Agricultural Transformation, the forum brought together and around 1,500 stakeholders to advance policies and secure investments that will progress the continent&#8217;s economic stability.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame was speaking yesterday at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF)\u00a0 in\u00a0Nairobi, Kenya during a panel session alongside Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rhoda Tumusiime, the African Union Commissioner for Rural Development and Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the meeting aims to transform the continent from a perpetual net importer of agricultural products to a global player in the agricultural arena with a significant command of the global market.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We should not only seize the moment but continue momentum for transformation of agriculture and economies of our continent.\u00a0 Agriculture is not just one sector of the economy, amongst others &#8211; it&#8217;s the backbone of the economy. We need to strengthen the involvement of other parts of the value chain, especially the private sector. Let\u2019s have more action and less talk.\u201d<\/em> President Kagame said.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nairobi, 8 September 2016 President Kagame today joined a panel session with President Uhuru Kenyatta and African Union Commissioner for Rural Development and Agriculture at the 2016 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Nairobi Kenya. Themed Seize the Moment: Africa Rising through Agricultural Transformation, the forum brought together and around 1,500 stakeholders to advance policies and secure investments that will progress the continent&#8217;s economic stability. President Kagame was speaking yesterday at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF)\u00a0 in\u00a0Nairobi, Kenya&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5002","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\/5002","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7095,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions\/7095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}