Bara Gueye is director of Innovations, Environnement, Développement (IED) Afrique, Dakar, Senegal. He is a rural economist. He worked for over two decades in promoting local development and participatory approaches in West Africa. He joined the International Institute for Environment and Development in 1993, which in 2005 became an independent organization – IED Afrique. It focuses on participatory processes, research and policy advocacy to support the transformation of family farming in West Africa, including inclusive decentralization processes.www.iedafrique.org
With the World Food Summit in Rome in November and the Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen in early December 2009, climate change and hunger are once again hot topics. Agriculture is at the heart of both. Official delegations, civil society…
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