IFAD President Calls for "Change from Within"

"Africa should not wait for the international community to solve its problems. Africa will conquer hunger when African governments give Africans the tools and resources they need to feed themselves. Change – real change – comes from within," International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) President Kanayo F. Nwanze told African Union leaders.

"I believe that African countries need to do more to ensure that agriculture is put at the top of the national agendas. Although development aid is key to Africa's advancement, the countries themselves will ultimately have to take responsibility for their own development. No nation, no people ever had sustainable growth that sprang solely from external support. Africa's development must be made in Africa, by Africans, for Africans. Every food crop must be fully rooted in its own soil to flourish. Change cannot be imposed from outside, it must be cultivated from within," Nwanze added.

See the article at http://www.ifad.org/media/press/2011/57.htm