5-7 December 2016 Abuja, Nigeria
African Economic Conference 2016

Jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the African Economic Conference (AEC) 2016 will convene under the theme, 'Feeding Africa: Towards Agro-Allied Industrialization for Inclusive Growth'. Participants will consider the latest empirical evidence on Africa's agricultural transformation and discuss how to leverage agro-industrialization for food security and inclusive growth in Africa. The conference aims to provide a platform for critical thinking on how policy-makers, development partners, the private sector, civil society organizations and the academia should support the planning and implementation of these industrialization strategies.  

dates: 5-7 December 2016  
location: Abuja, Nigeria  
contact: Abebe Shimeles, AfDB  
e-mail: aec@afdb.org  
www: http://www.afdb.org/en/aec-2016/
 http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/AEC/2016/AEC2016-concept_note_EN.pdf