The Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 chooses the African Press Organization (APO) as media partner

The Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 chooses the African Press Organization (APO) as media partner

A consortium regrouping the World Bank, the World Food Program (WFP), the European Commission, the International Fund for Agriculture development (IFAD), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) has chosen the African Press Organization (APO) as the media partner for the Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 which will take place in Cancun, Mexico, the 4th of December 2010.

The APO will be in charge of the distribution of press releases regarding the event to African and international media.

"The press releases concerning the Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 will systematically be distributed to the online data base of press releases, APO-Source, as well as to our partners’ websites: PR Newswire, LexisNexis, BurellesLuce, StarAfrica.com , A24 Media, Afrik.com and Afrik-news.com. They will be indexed under the agriculture, development and media advisory categories, and will be available on Google"declared Jennipher Tambadou, APO’s Business Development Manager, adding that the APO contributes to the media relations of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (specialized agency of the United Nations) and that of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA).

About 500 policymakers and negotiators, journalists, rural development practitioners, farmers, civil society and the agriculture and climate change scientific community will meet in Cancun, Mexico, the 4th of December, 2010 during the Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010, organized by a consortium regrouping mainly the Consultative Group on International, agricultural Research (CGIAR), the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, the African Development Bank (AfDB), International Fund for Agricultural Development (specialized agency of the United Nations) the World Food Program (WFP), the European Commission, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Oxfam International, and the University of Leeds.

For more information: http://www.agricultureday.org

• About the African Press Organization (APO)

APO is the global leader in media relation services in or related to Africa and partners notably with PR Newswire and LexisNexis. APO has its headquarters in Dakar (Senegal) and its Regional Office for Europe in Lausanne (Switzerland).

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Contact: Jennipher Tambadou

Business Development Manager African Press Organization – APO - APO Headquarters

12, Bd Djily Mbaye - Dakar, Senegal

Tel.: +221 33 829 64 33 - Skype : apo-opa5   Email: bdm1@apo-opa.org  - www.apo-opa.org