Xu Shouzhi and his 12 colleagues are typical of many groups of Chinese workers operating across Africa today.
The 63-year old from Qingdao, in eastern Shandong province, is in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, to build a cashew nut processing factory.
"It is exactly like our factory at home," he says.
"All you need to do is put cashews into this tunnel and they will come out cooked at the other end, and then they can be canned," he says.
He takes out a blueprint for the site and points to it proudly with his ballpoint pen.
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Cashews remain a major agricultural export of Mozambique, and Xu's sparkling new production line allows the nuts to be cooked, canned and exported from there, instead of the cashew kernels having to be processed abroad.
According to Christian Mersmann, managing director of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, this emphasis on developing local production is much preferred to straight raw food exports from Africa. Along with local jobs and income, it also delivers what is still considered one Africa's key needs when it comes to its agricultural sector and nutritional security.
Mersmann's Germany-based organization has become a mainstream platform for donors and partners to exchange knowledge and coordinate efforts to improve the quality of global rural development.
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Organized by the US-based International Food Policy Research Institute - which since 1975 has sought what it calls "sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty" - the three-day event attracted more than 800 policymakers, practitioners and scholars to discuss how Africa's food and nutrition security can be strengthened.
In 2012, the United Nations noted that 28 of Africa's 54 countries faced serious food security issues.
Its figures showed that in 2010, the continent, with a population of over a billion people, accounted for just 165 million tons of grain, or 6.64 percent of the world's total.
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The basic issue remains that Africa relies on agriculture as the main pillar of its economy, but margins are still low from its agricultural exports, and countries cannot buy sufficient food in return to feed their own people.
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A 500g pack of Ethiopian coffee beans produced by TO.MO.CA - an abbreviation of the Italian name Torrefazione Moderna Caf - the leading coffee company based in Addis Ababa Nolan Ryan Womens Jersey , costs between 96 and 150 birr ($4.90-$7.65), even in the most expensive international hotel near the conference.
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LONDON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The first batch of experimental Ebola vaccine is being shipped to West Africa and will arrive in Liberia later on Friday, British multinational pharmaceutical and healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced.
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The experimental vaccine has been tested in Britain, the United States, Switzerland and Mali. Around 200 health volunteers are involved in the test, according to GSK. It said initial data from trials showed that the experimental vaccine has an acceptable safety profile.
GSK said the large-scale trail would be led by a U.S. biotechnology firm, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Up to 30,000 people, including frontline healthcare workers, will be enrolled up in the trail Jeff Bagwell Womens Jersey , one third of whom will receive GSK's candidate Ebola vaccine.
"Shipping the vaccine today is a major achievement and shows that we remain on track with the accelerated development of our candidate Ebola vaccine. If the candidate vaccine is able to protect these people, as we hope it will, it could significantly contribute to efforts to bring this epidemic under control and prevent future outbreaks," said Moncef Slaoui, chairman of global vaccines at GSK.
"It is important to remember that this vaccine is still in development and any potential future use in mass vaccination campaigns will depend on whether WHO, regulators and other stakeholders are satisfied that the vaccine candidate provides protection against Ebola without causing significant side effects and how quickly large quantities of vaccine can be made," he added.
According to latest data from the WHO, a total of 21 Authentic Dallas Keuchel Jersey ,724 Ebola cases were confirmed in nine countries, while 8,642 people have died because of the virus. WHO said the case incidence continues to fall in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
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