7 May 2014 - Abuja, Nigeria - Dr Sipho Moyo and Nde Ndifonka present the *600 000 petition to President Jakaya Kikwete

Petition Deliveries

“We are committed to developing the agriculture sector and getting solutions to the challenges is our priority …. so if we improve agriculture, we also improve the pace of poverty reduction in

the country” President Kikwete

Petition Deliveries

7 May 2014 - WEF - Dr Sipho Moyo and D’Banj present the petition to Minister of Agriculture in Nigera, Dr Adesina Akinwumi

“Thank you for taking Agriculture out of obscurity into the mainstream. Nigeria remains committed to agricultural development as the quickest means to economic development. We support this call for leaders to meet their Maputo commitments.” Minister Adesina

7 May 2014 - Abuja, Nigeria - Presentation to Mali’s Prime Minister Moussa Mara of Mali

Petition Deliveries

“I am glad that Africans have rallied behind this campaign, and as leaders, we will continue to work to find effective solutions to job creation and economic development” Prime Minister Moussa Mara.

8 May 2014 - Abuja, Nigeria - Dr Sipho Moyo presents petition to President Yayi Boni of Benin

Petition Deliveries

“We all need to increase our budget expenditures in agriculture and invest at least 10%. I would like this objective to be achieved throughout the continent” President Yayi Boni

28 May 2014 - Niamey, Niger - Elisa Desbordes-Cisse presents the petition to Prime Minister Brigi Rafini of Niger

Petition Deliveries

“This is a great campaign with an innovative approach as it is really important to mobilise youth. Niger is really supportive to this initiative” Prime Minister Brigi Rafini”

10 June 2014 - Dar es salaam, Tanzania - Audience with President Jakaya Kikwete and Minister of Agriculture- Hon Christopher Chiza

Petition Deliveries

“The fact that over 2 million Africans have signed the Do Agric Petition presented here today shows that indeed that Africa speaks in one voice and recognizes that improving the agriculture sector, for which the majority of Africa's population depends on their livelihoods, is an absolute priority if we are determined to eradicate poverty on the continent. Minister Chiza

10 June 2014 - Dar es salaam, Tanzania - Petition presentation to President Jakaya Kikwete and Minister of Agriculture-

Hon Christopher Chiza

Petition Deliveries

“I will champion this cause at the AU Summit. I will present this petition to the other Heads of State. We as African governments cannot succeed in taking agriculture

forward unless we modernize it, instead of our people continuing to use the hand-held hoe and other farming implements from pre-biblical times.” President Kikwete

17 June 2014 - Lusaka, Zambia - Presentation of petition to Vice President Guy Scott and Minister of Agriculture, Wilbur Simuusa

Petition Deliveries

“During the year of agriculture, we need to put our money where our mouth is. Our Government will ensure the same rate of increase in the budget until we meet and exceed the

Maputo target of 10 percent”. Wilbur Simuusa

17 June 2014 - Lusaka, Zambia - Presentation of petition to Vice President Guy Scott and Minister of Agriculture, Wilbur Simuusa

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“We need to stop reinventing the wheel, we’ve had, I don’t know how many hundreds of projects, NGO driven the projects, Government’s own initiatives aimed at this or that in agriculture and our performance

has been below that of our neighbouring countries”

18 June 2014 - Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso. Delivery by a local farmer to Minister of Agriculture and Food Security of Burkina

Faso Mahana Zougrana.

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19 June 2014 - Abuja, Nigeria - D’banj presented the petition to Nigeria's Federal Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Petition Deliveries

“We want to commit on behalf of the Government of Nigeria our total support to this sector and the fact that we will continue to invest in it, not only in the traditional way - the budget, but

through all kinds of instruments including venture capital to support our young people.” Minister Okonjo-Iweala

19 June 2014 - Niamey, Niger - Audience with Head of State of Niger,

Mahamadou Issoufou

Petition Deliveries

“Agriculture is key to the development of our countries. Through the “Les Nigeriens Nourrissent les Nigeriens” initiative, Niger has already taken the lead ” President Mahamadou Issoufou

20 June 2014 - Accra, Ghana – President Dramani Mahama.

Petition Deliveries

“I am myself a converted believer in the issues raised by the petition.” “Investing in agriculture is putting our money where our mouths are” President Mahama

23 June 2014 - Johannesburg, South Africa - Minister of Agriculture of South Africa - Senzeni Zokwana recieves petition.

Petition Deliveries

"It is important to listen to smallholder farmers, It does not help for me bring boreholes when you need a fence. I will listen to your needs and carry your

message to Malabo” Minister Zokwana

Petition Deliveries

“We recognise ourselves in these 10 policy recommendations. I will personally present them to the Head of State and ask him to carry them out to Malabo to present them to his peers.”

19 June 2014 - Abdoulaye Papa Seck, Minister of Agriculture – Senegal