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NAIROBI Homme Nike Air Max 98 Triple White Blanche Pas Cher , May 17 (Xinhua) -- The Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states were on Wednesday urged to boost national agricultural production in order to boost intra-regional trade.
Kenya's Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Amina Mohamed told a regional agricultural forum that total COMESA food import bill stood at 29 billion U.S. dollars in 2016.
"This indicates that we can boost intra-regional trade if we begin trading in agricultural produce through enhanced agricultural production," Mohamed said during the Second Agro-Industry Dialogue.
The two-day event brought stakeholders to review issues affecting sustainability and growth in the agro industry sector.
Total trade by COMESA bloc stands at 235 billion dollars with intra-regional only about 7 percent.
Mohamed said that despite the 19-member trading bloc having vast resources in the agricultural sector, the industry is under-performing as it remains a net food importer.
She said that region should move away from subsistence to commercial agriculture in order to boost farm output.
"The fundamental issue is about how we can put in place policies and strategies that transform and enhance participation of small and medium enterprises in the agriculture supply chains so as to eliminate agricultural trade deficit," she added.
The CS urged the region to draw up a risk response mechanism so as to prevent the region from experiencing food scarcity caused by drought.
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Visitors to Christie's wait outside in a line to view Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi", Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in New York.
A rare painting by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci of Christ holding a crystal orb has sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at a New York auction.
The painting, "Salvator Mundi," Italian for "Savior of the World," was sold Wednesday by Christie's auction house.
Visitors to Christie's wait outside in a line to view Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi", Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in New York.
The highest price paid for a work of art at auction had been $179.4 million (152 million euros), for Picasso's "Women of Algiers (Version O)" in May 2015, also at Christie's in New York.
The highest known sale price for any artwork had been $300 million (253 million euros) for Willem de Kooning's "Interchange" in September 2015, which was sold privately.
Scholars believe the Leonardo painting is one of few works by Leonardo to survive the centuries since his death and the only one in private hands.
A painting thought by scholars to be one of only a few by Leonardo da Vinci to have survived the half-millennia since the artist's death is set to be auctioned Wednesday in New York
The 500-year-old oil painting depicting Christ holding a crystal orb is called "Salvator Mundi" or "Savior of the World."
It has been guaranteed by a backer to sell for at least $100 million (85 million euros).
Christie's is the auction house conducting the sale. It says it is the only painting by the Renaissance master in private hands.
Christie's has exhibited the painting in Hong Kong, San Francisco, London and New York in the weeks prior to Wednesday's sale. (Agencies)
British Prime Minister Theresa May called Monday for greater effort to stamp out "abuses of power" in public life amid what she called troubling allegations of sexual harassment and abuse in U.K. politics.
May and leaders of the other parties in Parliament agreed to set up a grievance procedure for everybody working in Parliament, and to replace an existing complaints phone line with a face-to-face service.
"I think if this hasn't happened to you it's difficult to appreciate the impact that being a victim of this sort of behavior can have — it simply has a lasting impact on people," May said after meeting Labour Party chief Jeremy Corbyn and other party leaders.
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at the annual Confederation of British Industry annual conference in London Monday Nov. 6, 2017. May is calling for a new "culture of respect" in public life amid spreading allegations of sexual harassment and abuse in British politics. The scandal has already triggered the resignation of the country's defense secretary, an investigation of May's deputy and the suspension by their parties of several Conservative and Labour lawmakers.(John StillwellPA via AP)
"And we need to do more to stop these abuses of power."
Since revelations emerged about Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, researchers, staff and journalists working in British politics have begun to come forward with allegations of sexual abuse and harassment by lawmakers and officials in Parliament. In several cases, they have accused political parties of failing to take action and even discouraging victims from going to police.
The claims have ranged from unwanted touching and suggestive emails to allegations of rape.
The scandal has already triggered the resignation of the country's defense secretary, an investigation of May's deputy and the suspension by their parties of several Conservative and Labour lawmakers.
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