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Africa Agricultural Policy Leadership Dialogue
Africa Agriculture Policy Leadership Dialogue (AAPLD)
Lusaka, Zambia | Time: 9:00-18:00
June 1, 2023 | |
Time | Description |
8:00 – 9:00 AM | Registration and Networking with Coffee |
| Welcome by Moderators Welcome Address Victoria Kwakwa, Vice President, Eastern and Southern Africa, World Bank H.E. Ambassador Josefa Sacko, Commissioner, Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment (ARBE), African Union Commission H.E. Hakainde Hichilema, President, Republic of Zambia |
9:30 – 10:00 AM | Public Policy and Economic Performance: Historical Perspective and Implications for Future Food System Transformation Policies in African Countries. Dr. Ousmane Badiane, Executive Chairperson and CEO, AKADEMIYA2063 |
10:00 –11:00 AM
| Session 1: Incentives: Repurposing Agricultural Support Policies and Programs Johan Swinnen, Managing Director of Systems Transformation, CGIAR and Director General, IFPRI. · Mr. Phil Hogan, Former EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development
• The Architects of Systemic Racism – South African Wandile Mthiyane Tells an American Story on ArchitizerStory by: Wandile Mthiyane Wandile Mthiyane is an Obama Leader, TedxFellow, architectural designer, social entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Ubuntu Design Group (UDG), an architectural organization that focuses on social impact design projects ranging from individual housing to urban design scale. In my second year of architectural studies at a university in Michigan, I was introduced to the “history of architecture.” As a South African, I was particularly excited about this course because the syllabus revealed that it covered African architecture. When the class began, we were briefly taught about ancient Egyptian architecture stretching from the first known architect who designed the pyramid of Saqqara to how great Egyptian ingenuity laid the foundation for the classical architectural language of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Learning that early inventions in African architecture shaped western architecture was revolutionary, but my excitement was short-lived as after only 14 pages into Egyptian architecture, we went on to study 576 pages of western architecture with slivers of Islamic architecture. As the great architect |