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| Name | The Africa 2020 Vision Network |
| Description | The Africa 2020 Vision Initiative has two primary objectives:* To develop and promote a shared vision and consensus for action for meeting food needs while reducing poverty and protecting the environment* To generate information and encourage debate to influence action by national governments, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, international development institutions, and other elements of civil society.To realize these objectives, the Initiative engages in four major activities:* Generating timely, state-of-the-art information on key topics related to food, agriculture, and the environment, paying special attention to emerging issues that have long-term implications for feeding the world, alleviating poverty, and protecting natural resources;* Communicating the 2020 Vision challenges and related action program to raise public awareness of the world's food and environmental problems and what can be done to solve them;* Providing fora for dialogue, debate, information sharing, and consensus building among policymakers, researchers, and leaders in nongovernmental organizations, private sector, and media through seminars, workshops, and conferences;* Undertaking pilot activities in research, policy communications, and capacity strengthening to support IFPRI's long-term strategy.seeks to reduce poverty and improve food security in East Africa by generating policy-relevant information through collaborative research activities, improving the dissemination and use of such information, and strengthening local capacity to undertake and communicate policy research. The Network covers Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
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