by josiahmwd | Mar 15, 2018 | News, World Food Bank Team
Meet George Meka Abessolo, our Director of Africa Business Development George Meka Abessolo knew from a young age that he was called to work with the land. Growing up as the grandson of a large cocoa and coffee farmer in South Cameroon, George spent holidays traipsing...
by josiahmwd | Feb 2, 2018 | International, News
In January, the United Nations announced that its General Assembly recently passed a resolution declaring 2019-2028 the Decade of Family Farming. This resolution follows the success of the 2014 UN Year of Family Farming, which “raised the profile of the role of family...
by josiahmwd | Jan 10, 2018 | News, Uncategorized, World Food Bank Team
Richard Lackey, the CEO of the World Food Bank, is delighted to announce the appointment of Scott Brown to the role of President of the World Food Bank. Scott brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience in engineering, banking and microfinance to the...
by josiahmwd | Jan 8, 2018 | News, Uncategorized
We are pleased to report that our leadership team recently returned from a successful trip to Ethiopia where they met with government leaders, local ministries, and nationally-recognized manufacturing companies to discuss our plans to move forward with the production...
by josiahmwd | Jan 5, 2018 | News
We are excited to announce that we continue to move forward on plans to expand our operations in soya farming in Uganda. We have identified several properties in country, and we are currently working to complete paperwork on the purchase of one of them. We plan to...
by josiahmwd | Nov 3, 2017 | News
Video calls. Smart refrigerators. Flying taxies. Not so long ago, these were things you’d only find in futuristic space cartoons. Today they’re a real part of our world.  Change and amazing technological advancements are occurring rapidly across our planet, yet some...