Africa Rising: Debisi Araba and the African Green Revolution Forum | Ep. 18

In this episode we’ll be talking to Dr. Debisi Araba, Managing Director of the African Green Revolution Forum. The AGRF is an organization that fosters community and collaboration among countries across all of Africa. Focusing on agriculture in particular, the African Green Revolution Forum works to accelerate the continent’s drive toward economic growth, human flourishing, and environmental health. Africa is rising, and it is the passion of people like Debisi that is driving the vision. He joins our conversation in this episode from Kenya.

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Guest: Dr. Debisi Araba, Managing Director for the African Green Revolution Forum 

AGRF's 2020 Virtual Summit
African proverb: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If  you want to go far, go with others."  article on origins of the proverb
2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit
Food Systems Summit Objectives - Action Tracks
Quaker quote: "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again. " most commonly attributed to Stephen Grellet
The 5 Love Languages - book by Gary Chapman
Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria - map
CGIAR (International Consortium on Agriculture Research)
CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture)
CCAFS (Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture & Food Security)
United Nations Sustainability Goals
AGRF's Agribusiness Deal Room
US pulls out of the Paris Agreement
The Great Green Wall Initiative - the UN's page
The spirit of Ubuntu 

Actions: Mindfulness—in what you eat, where it comes from, who produces it, what you purchase.  Be more curious about the agrifood sector. 

Key Words: Indigenous wisdom, ubuntu, social entrepreneurship, African economy, economic development, Desmond Tutu, Africa rising, global economy, environmental sustainability, African ecology, panAfrica unity

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