CNFA and GSI Partner to Provide Solutions to Improve Farm Productivity and Food Security in Africa
08 Aprile 2015 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
CNFA and GSI Group have launched a strategic partnership aimed
at promoting food storage and protein production systems as a
critical way to improve farm productivity and food security. This
partnership will notably strive to significantly reduce the
multi-billion dollar food losses that occur yearly due to
insufficient and inadequate post-harvest infrastructures in
Sub-Sahara Africa. It will also leverage CNFA’s close proximity to
thousands of smallholder farmers in Africa with GSI’s cutting-edge,
scalable technologies for grain and perishable storage.
GSI, a global brand of AGCO, is a world class manufacturer of
grain storage, material handling, conditioning and drying
equipment, as well as a full line supplier of swine and poultry
production equipment. GSI Group, LLC President Tom Welke and CNFA
President and CEO Sylvain Roy released the following statement:
“This partnership has the potential to dramatically improve
smallholder farmers’ incomes and nutritional status by reducing
their post-harvest losses. An alliance between CNFA - a premier
agricultural non-profit development organization - and GSI - a
world-class agribusiness company - demonstrates how working
together and merging our collective years of experience, can result
in new and innovative approaches to address food losses. We believe
that our partnership can significantly impact millions of rural
households’ food security and help strengthen the local
economy.”
CNFA and GSI are currently developing solutions and technologies
to be introduced in the near future. Among the most promising
innovations will be the introduction of a village-level,
solar-powered cold storage for perishables that will allow
smallholder farmers to reduce waste and losses, while improving
their access to new and existing markets.
About CNFA: Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture, an
international development organization, specializes in designing
sustainable, market-led agricultural initiatives. CNFA builds
strong local and global partnerships, incorporates innovative
approaches in its programs, and fosters inclusive development to
offer enhanced opportunities to under-served groups. Since 1985,
CNFA has managed more than $510 million in donor-funded agriculture
development programs and has worked in 42 countries across the
world in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean,
the Middle East, and South and Central Asia. For more information,
visit www.cnfa.org.
About AGCO: AGCO (NYSE: AGCO) is a global
leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural
machinery. AGCO supports more productive farming through a
full line of tractors, combines, hay tools, sprayers, forage
equipment, grain storage and protein production systems, seeding
and tillage implements and replacement parts. AGCO products
are sold through five core machinery brands, Challenger®, Fendt®,
GSI®, Massey Ferguson® and Valtra® and are distributed globally
through a combination of approximately 3,100 independent dealers
and distributors in more than 140 countries. Founded in
1990, AGCO is headquartered in Duluth, GA, USA. In
2014, AGCO had net sales of $9.7 billion. For more information,
visit www.AGCOcorp.com and www.gsiag.com
CNFAJessie Lowry, 202-296-3920Director of
Communicationsjlowry@cnfa.orgorAGCORebecca Fabian,
646-415-8518Senior Consultant Instinctif
PartnersRebecca.Fabian@instinctif.com
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