AFRICA’S FOOD SECURITY PLANS / EU-Africa Summit: Nutrition must be put at Heart of Africa’s Food Security Plans
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, November 25, 2010/African Press Organization (APO)/ — AFRICA’S FOOD SECURITY PLANS / EU-Africa Summit: Nutrition must be put at Heart of Africa’s Food Security Plans
Three days before the EU-Africa Summit, Jay Naidoo, Chairman of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and former Chairperson of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), will hold a virtual press conference on how to achieve food security targets of the Millennium Development Goals.
In Africa one in four people suffer from malnutrition, twenty-five percent of children are undernourished and forty percent are stunted. Simple, targeted and cost-effective solutions exist to end malnutrition.
ASK YOUR QUESTIONS LIVE THROUGH VIDEOCONFERENCE
WHO : Jay Naidoo, Chairman of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
WHEN : November 26, 11.30 (Paris time)
LANGUAGES : English
APPLICATION : http://www.apo-opa.org/en/application?vc=GAIN
About Jay Naidoo: http://www.apo-opa.org/101119.pdf
About GAIN:
http://www.gainhealth.org
CONTACT :
- African Press Organization : +41 22 534 96 97 / +33 661 797 718 / sec.sg@apo-opa.org
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African Press Organization (APO)
