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It is great news for agriculture to have Dr. Akinwumi (Akin) Adesina elected to be the next President of the African Development Bank (ADB). His passion for agriculture in his past roles at Minister of Agriculture in Nigeria and at AGRA, as well as his PhD in agriculture economics from Purdue make him an expert on the foundation of most African economies.<\/p>\n

Marshall Matz of Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. has written a great piece Why Adesina’s election is important for agriculture<\/a> for AGRA<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is great news for agriculture to have Dr. Akinwumi (Akin) Adesina elected to be the next President of the African Development Bank (ADB). His passion for agriculture in his past roles at Minister of Agriculture in Nigeria and at AGRA, as well as his PhD in agriculture economics from Purdue make him an expert…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","no-media"],"yoast_head":"\nAdesina Elected to Head African Development Bank - Emerging Ag Inc<\/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:\/\/emergingag.com\/fr\/adesina-elected-to-head-african-development-bank\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_CA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adesina Elected to Head African Development Bank - Emerging Ag Inc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is great news for agriculture to have Dr. Akinwumi (Akin) Adesina elected to be the next President of the African Development Bank (ADB). 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