20 June 2014. Two years ago, Frank Rijsberman took over as the CEO of CGIAR consortium, a global partnership that brings together organisations with interest in
research and development for a food secure future.
SciDev.Net talks to him about his priorities for achieving
food security in
Sub-Saharan Africa, some successes and key research challenges of CGIAR consortium.
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He answers following questions:
- After two years in office, what have been your priority areas of action and key achievements?
- What are some of your focus areas in the next few years, especially for Sub-Saharan Africa, and why?
- Why is it that many African countries are still food insecure?
- What is CGIAR consortium doing to address these challenges?
- Africa is grappling with youth unemployment. How can the youth be enticed to agriculture?
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