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Friday, September 10, 2010

Roger Thurow Interviews Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Tanzanian Prime Minister Mizengo P. Pinda

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From Left: Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General and current Chairman, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa; Tanzanian Prime Minister Mizengo P. Pinda

While attending the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Accra, Ghana, last weekend, Roger Thurow, senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, interviewed Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary General and Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), and Mizengo P. Pinda, Prime Minister of Tanzania, on how to promote investments and policy support for driving agricultural productivity and income growth for African farmers.

Roger's interview with Kofi Annan, carried out in concert with National Journal reporter Jerry Hagstrom, can be found here.

Roger's interview with Prime Minister Pinda can be accessed here.

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Roger Thurow
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Roger serves as the editor and principal contributor to the Global Food for Thought blog. He writes a weekly column as part of his "Outrage & Inspire" series.

Roger is coauthor of the book, ENOUGH: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.

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