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Our voices were heard in Malabo, we made a difference!
On January 20, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, we launched the Do Agric, It Payscampaign. The campaign called on African governments to keep their promises to invest in agriculture and support smallholder farmers when they meet at the AU Heads Of state summit in June in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
Over the course of the campaign, over 2 million Africans rose to the occasion and joined us in sending this message to our leaders by signing the Do Agric petition. These actions made this the biggest mobilisation in ONE’s history! Wow, how historic!
Armed with this mandate, we took the message to our leaders. We delivered the Do Agric petition signatures and policy recommendations to four Heads of State, a Vice President and six Ministers of Agriculture in a total of 10 countries!
Presidents Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, Yayi Boni of Benin, John Mahama of Ghana and Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger all received the petition, and undertook to take action at home and to take the call by the two million petition signers to their peers at the African Union Summit that recently took place in Equatorial Guinea.
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