{"id":225959,"date":"2022-05-13T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afdb.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/a-15-billion-african-emergency-food-production-plan-to-avoid-a-looming-food-crisis-tells-president-adesina-to-us-senate?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-05-13T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:26:10","slug":"radio-news-release-soundbite-a-1-5-billion-african-emergency-food-production-plan-to-avoid-a-looming-food-crisis-tells-president-adesina-to-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/radio-news-release-soundbite-a-1-5-billion-african-emergency-food-production-plan-to-avoid-a-looming-food-crisis-tells-president-adesina-to-u-s-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio News Release (Soundbite): \u201cA 1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production plan to avoid a looming food crisis,\u201d tells President Adesina to U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"audio_wrap\"><audio preload=\"auto\"> <\/audio><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/afdb.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/a-15-billion-african-emergency-food-production-plan-to-avoid-a-looming-food-crisis-tells-president-adesina-to-us-senate?lang=en\">Listen to the soundbite<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/6911db7ffb0a908.mp3\">Download the soundbite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recordings are excerpts from a hearing session at the US Senate Appropriations subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs, during which the president of the African Development Bank Group (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.AfDB.org\">www.AfDB.org<\/a>), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, made a compelling case for the United States to back the institution&rsquo;s $1.5 billion emergency food production plan. The plan seeks to avert a looming food crisis in Africa caused by Russia&rsquo;s war in Ukraine. The Bank chief testified about global food insecurity and persisting impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>President Adesina&rsquo;s Keynote Speech (Text in English):&nbsp;https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Ndx6s6<\/p>\n<p>President Adesina&rsquo;s Keynote Speech (Text in French):&nbsp;https:\/\/bit.ly\/3FLPllZ<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Development Bank Group (AfDB).<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/f60887e9b8882e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/f60887e9b8882e1\" alt=\"African Development Bank Group (AfDB)\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/f60887e9b8882e1\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the soundbite Download the soundbite The recordings are excerpts from a hearing session at the US Senate Appropriations subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs, during which the president of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, made a compelling case for the United States to back the institution&rsquo;s $1.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-225959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/radio-news-release-soundbite-a-1-5-billion-african-emergency-food-production-plan-to-avoid-a-looming-food-crisis-tells-president-adesina-to-u-s-senate.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}