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Small and medium agricultural enterprises (agri-SMEs) are Africa's largest employer and economic engine—and the key to transforming food systems and improving food security for the continent. Yet three out of four agri-SMEs can't access formal bank financing, and are too large for microfinance, creating an estimated $100 billion gap in unmet demand for financing.

How can donor governments, development finance institutions, African governments, and the private sector catalyze action to strengthen food value chains in Africa through innovative financing, and better support small and medium agricultural enterprises?

The event is co-hosted with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This special Leadership Panel on strengthening food value chains was held September 18, 2023 at the World Economic Forum's New York headquarters.

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Speakers: William Samoei Ruto, President of Kenya, Office of the President of Kenya; Scott Nathan, Chief Executive Officer, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation; Samantha Power, Administrator, US Agency for International Development (USAID); Rebecca Enonchong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AppsTech;Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, US Department of the Treasury; Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Acumen; Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum Geneva; Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development, Norway Government; Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, President, African Development Bank (AfDB).

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/leadership-panel-bridging-the-gap-financing-africas-agricultural-growth

About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023

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The World Economic Forum has just published its latest Chief Economists Outlook, a regular report based on the views of senior economists around the world.

This edition shows a glass half full and half empty, with concerns of widespread economic recession easing since the last report in May, but slowing global growth and continued economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions.

In this episode, Jérôme Haegeli, chief economist at Swiss Re, gives his views on the state of the global economy, and where things may be heading.

Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-september-2023-jerome-haegeli-swiss-re

Where is the global economy heading in 2024? This is what chief economists think

Chief Economist Outlook September 2023

May 2023: Recession fears recede, but inflation's still a big risk - 3 chief economists on the global outlook

Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy?

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Semiconductors make the world go round, and the most cutting-edge versions are necessary to propel the artificial intelligence revolution.

Historian Chris Miller, author 'Chip War', explains what chips do, how they are made, and why they are so vital to global supply chains and international relations.

Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/silicon-chips-semiconductors-chris-miller

Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/09/silicon-chips-semiconductors-supply-chains-chris-miller

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Professor Stuart Russell shares his concerns about the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence.

Episode 1: AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Episode 2: A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Episode 3: Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?

Episode 4: 'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?

Episode 5: AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all

Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI's impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

The promises and perils of AI - Stuart Russell on Radio Davos

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Designer phages, spatial optics, plant sensors and bendable batteries - just some of the items on this year's World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies that will change our lives in the next 3-5 years.

To talk us through all 10, we hear from the two people who led the work compiling the list: Mariette DiChristina, Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication; and Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM.

The report: https://www.weforum.org/reports/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2023/

Top-10 Emerging Technologies 2021

Antimicrobial resistance - how to stop a quiet pandemic

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Is the metaverse still a thing or has the world's attention moved on to generative AI?

On this episode of Radio Davos, we speak to a vice president of the consumer electronics company HTC. Pearly Chen heads Business Development & Content Partnerships for VIVEPORT a subscription plan for virtual reality gaming - immersive video games played using VR headsets.

Pearly is convinced of the potential for metaverse applications for healthcare, social care and education, and believes the advent of generative AI will make us all builders of the metaverse.

Defining and Building the Metaverse Initiative

​​Social Implications of the Metaverse: https://www.weforum.org/reports/social-implications-of-the-metaverse

Privacy and Safety in the Metaverse: https://www.weforum.org/reports/privacy-and-safety-in-the-metaverse

Can mindfulness and critical thinking protect us online

Could the metaverse be more trustworthy than our current internet

Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse

So just what is the metaverse? Meta's Nick Clegg at Davos 2022

Risks on Earth, in space and in the metaverse - the Global Risks Report 2022

7 leaders on the tech that will reshape our future

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Claude Marshall fled Nazi Germany as a small boy in the 1930s and now helps today's refugees by fundraising for sports facilities in refugee camps.

He tells Radio Davos why sport is so important for traumatised young people, and compares the plight of people today forced from their home with his own childhood experience.

The World Economic Forum's Refugee Employment Alliance, co-chaired by the UNHCR and the Ingka Group,

Transcript available on the podcast episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/refugees-unhcr-sport-claude-marshall

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Can we prevent a repeat of COVID-19? In a new book, Disease X, author Kate Kelland looks at what we learned from the pandemic and how scientists, governments and societies can be better prepared for the next one.

World Economic Forum's Website page for the "Centre for Health and Healthcare". https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/home

Regional Vaccine Manufacturing Collaborative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/regional-solution-to-vaccine-inequity-davos23/

Pathogen Surveillance Initiative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/lets-bring-together-countries-and-corporations-to-grow-global-pathogen-surveillance-davos23/

Disease X: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Disease-X/Kate-Kelland/9781912454952

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The final episode of our AI series comes from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), the World Economic Forum's 'summer Davos', in Tianjin, China.

Cathy Li, head of AI at the World Economic Forum, says what needs to happen next as the world gets to grips with generative AI, and introduces the AI Governance Alliance.

And we listen in to discussions at AMNC about AI - the opportunities for business and implications for things such as medicine and education.

Follow AMNC here: https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023

Watch the AMNC sessions quoted in this episode:

Generative AI: Friend or Foe?

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/generative-ai-friend-or-foe

Keeping Up: AI Readiness Amid an AI Revolution

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/keeping-up-ai-readiness-amid-an-ai-revolution

A transcript is available on the episode page on our website: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-5-amnc

The Presidio Recommendations on Responsible Generative AI

AI Governance Alliance

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Amid pressures on the global economy from recent major crises and renewed turbulence in financial markets, stakeholders will need to convert the bright spots of accelerated trade and investment in green and innovative industries into a new paradigm for sustained growth.

How can both government and the private sector draw on the opportunities stemming from this time of change and transition to rewire the models underpinning global growth?

Speakers:

Zhang Yuzhuo, Chairman, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC)

Pham Minh Chinh, Prime Minister of Viet Nam

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, Barbados Government

Chris Hipkins, Prime Minister of New Zealand

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum

Transcript available at:

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/amnc23-braving-the-headwinds-rewiring-growth-amid-fragility

Read more:

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/braving-the-headwinds-rewiring-growth-amid-fragility

Watch the session:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/top-leaders-discuss-managing-economic-hurdles-at-amnc23/

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