{"id":1170,"date":"2010-07-20T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T12:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2013-03-18T17:01:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:01:26","slug":"ground-control-making-the-grade-in-agriculture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/ground-control-making-the-grade-in-agriculture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Control: making the grade in agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Press-release_Ground-Control-Making-the-grade-in-agriculture2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1234\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"COMESA, exports, economics, horticulture, Kenya, Rwanda, Martha Byinyima, smallholder farmers, standards\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ground-Control-border-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"COMESA, exports, economics, horticulture, Kenya, Rwanda, Martha Byinyima, smallholder farmers, standards\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ground-Control-border-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ground-Control-border-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ground-Control-border-170x240.jpg 170w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ground-Control-border.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two thirds of Africans depend on agriculture for their livelihood, and the sector\u00a0accounts for 30-40% of the continent\u2019s GDP. Flowers, fruit and vegetables from\u00a0Africa are increasingly present on the shelves of European supermarkets. Smallholder\u00a0farmers have been able\u00a0to service the demand for out-of-season produce from\u00a0consumers in Europe. While predictions of an African \u2018Green Revolution\u2019 are\u00a0overstated, agriculture remains one of Africa\u2019s most important, but neglected,\u00a0potential competitive advantages in the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Press-release_Ground-Control-Making-the-grade-in-agriculture2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1278\" title=\"Download PDF\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pdf_download_ari.png\" alt=\"Download PDF\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two thirds of Africans depend on agriculture for their livelihood, and the sector\u00a0accounts for 30-40% of the continent\u2019s GDP. Flowers, fruit and vegetables from\u00a0Africa are increasingly present on the shelves of European supermarkets. Smallholder\u00a0farmers have been able\u00a0to service the demand for out-of-season produce from\u00a0consumers in Europe. While predictions of an African \u2018Green Revolution\u2019 are\u00a0overstated, agriculture remains one of Africa\u2019s most important, but neglected,\u00a0potential competitive advantages in the global economy. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,176,175,65,178,49,120,177],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-comesa","tag-exports","tag-horticulture","tag-kenya","tag-martha-byanyima","tag-rwanda","tag-smallholder-farmers","tag-standards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ground Control: making the grade in agriculture - Africa Research Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/ground-control-making-the-grade-in-agriculture-2\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ground Control: making the grade in agriculture - Africa Research Institute\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Two thirds of Africans depend on agriculture for their livelihood, and the sector\u00a0accounts for 30-40% of the continent\u2019s GDP. 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