American business magnate and Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has expressed pleasure at spending time with Nigeria’s President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan.
After a meeting with the President in New York, Gates wrote:
“It’s the kickoff to U.N. Week here in New York, and while locals like to complain about the traffic (I can see why), it is a great opportunity for me to meet with leaders from parts of the world where our foundation is working—to talk about global health and development projects.
I started off on Monday morning meeting Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan. Besides our work with our partners on polio in Nigeria, we are also working with the government to improve their agricultural sector. I’ve written before about China’s potential to help developing countries in Africa learn from its successes, but in Nigeria we have a really interesting project just getting off the ground where Brazil is working with Nigeria to bring up agricultural productivity in their northern Guinea savannah.
Brazil has done an amazing job helping their own farmers in the Cerrado region to improve their yields, which brings tremendous economic and social benefits.
- thestreetjournal
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