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Boosting Food Security in Africa – Tesfai Tecle
This interview with Senior Advisor on Food and Nutrition Security Tesfai Tecle originally appeared in The Business Year. In Mozambique, agriculture provides...Read More
Poor people need weather alerts
Kofi Annan: Poor people need weather alerts This article appeared originally in French in Le Monde and English in the Africa Report....Read More
Building Strong Societies in Africa Through Agricultural Development
By Fabian Lange, Associate Research Officer at the Kofi Annan Foundation, for the Huffington Post Building Strong Societies in Africa Through Agricultural Development...Read More
Lift the Ban! Kofi Annan on Why It’s Time To Legalize Drugs
Drugs are dangerous, but current narcotics policies are an even bigger threat because punishment is given a greater priority than health and...Read More
Digital Thinking to Transform Africa’s Food System
Digital Thinking to Transform Africa’s Food System Overcoming Isolation, Speeding Up Change, and Taking Success to Scale By Kofi Annan, Chair, Kofi...Read More
Food and the Transformation of Africa
Food and the Transformation of Africa Getting Smallholders Connected By Kofi Annan, Chair, Kofi Annan Foundation; Seventh Secretary General, United Nations, and...Read More
The Case for Citizen Leadership
This piece was published in January 2016 in newspapers across the world. In it Kofi Annan analyses the world’s major fault-line and...Read More
Rethinking Sanctions
SINGAPORE – Today, the United Nations Security Council has more sanctions regimes in place than at any time in its history. During...Read More
2016: A Year for Passionate Intensity and Positive Change
The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity” The Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote these words...Read More
The Grassroots of Climate Change
PARIS – The climate-change agreement reached here on December 12 was a rich victory for diplomacy. Both the agreement itself and the...Read More