{"id":665,"date":"2008-03-04T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T18:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=665"},"modified":"2008-03-04T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T18:11:23","slug":"empowering-agriculture-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Agriculture In the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" title=\"Raymond Cesca\" alt=\"Raymond Cesca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/gateway-cesca.jpg\" \/>Gateway NAMA and the St. Louis Agribusiness Club hosted a joint meeting on Tuesday, February 12, featuring Mr. Raymond Cesca, President of the World Agricultural Forum.  His presentation was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The World Agricultural Forum: Empowering Agriculture to Drive Economic Growth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Cesca focused his comments on this idea of how agricultural production can be the mechanism that developing countries can use to grow their economies. He believes that for-profit companies can get involved and not only help overcome the problems of poverty and starvation but still make a profit doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Cesca issued an invitation to anyone who would like to learn more to attend this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Ag Forum Regional Congress which will be held in Kampala, Uganda, September 3-5. You can find the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldagforum.org\/index.php?section=134\">agenda for the Congress here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gateway NAMA and the St. Louis Agribusiness Club hosted a joint meeting on Tuesday, February 12, featuring Mr. Raymond Cesca, President of the World Agricultural Forum. His presentation was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The World Agricultural Forum: Empowering Agriculture to Drive Economic Growth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cesca focused his comments on this idea of how agricultural production can be the mechanism that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}