 Okay, so this week there is an extraordinary opportunity for the International Life Stock Research Institute. There's a new president of the African Development Bank and he has called for the ministers of agriculture and finance in Africa to meet, to discuss and to come to an agreement on a strategy for agricultural transformation in Africa to really take advantage of really the new opportunities that exist for improving the livelihoods of poor people but also for agriculture to contribute to national economic development and what we're seeing in Africa is that there's been already now for the last 10 or 20 years there's been an increasing opportunity for agriculture to contribute to economic development and poverty reduction and now really this is the first time that there's such a high level conference that's being called and these ministers of livestock and finance you really need to get the two of these together they are going to be meeting and discussing how this can be done. For some time now there's been of course everyone knows increasing population but along with this there's also been increasing income and urbanization and this means that there are greater markets for agricultural products and especially for livestock products as people's incomes increase then they want to consume more animal products in their diet and this is not like in the West where people are consuming too many animal products and it's not healthy for them here really there's a need for people to consume more animal products and so these ministers of agriculture and finance are meeting to discuss how we can take these conditions and we can use this really to transform the agricultural sector including livestock and to make really a tremendous difference in the lives of Africans reducing poverty in rural areas improving the livelihoods of people in urban areas by reducing making more agricultural products especially livestock available to these people so that they can improve their nutrition, their health and their livelihoods in total.