Today the combined meeting of the Gateway NAMA and St. Louis Agribusiness Club featured Mr. Raymond Cesca, President of the World Agricultural Forum. His presentation was “The World Agricultural Forum: Empowering Agriculture to Drive Economic Growth”

Ray focused his comments on this idea of how agricultural production can be the mechanism that developing nation countries can use to grow their economies. He believes that for-profit companies can get involved and not only help overcome the problems of poverty and starvation but still make a profit doing so.

He issued an invitation to anyone who would like to learn more to attend this year’s World Ag Forum Regional Congress which will be held in Kampala, Uganda, September 3-5. You can find the agenda for the Congress here.

You can find a pdf file version of Ray’s slides here: Ray Cesca Presentation

Prior to the meeting I did a short interview with Ray on the topic which you can listen to here: Ray Cesca Interview (4 min MP3)