Food systems leadership isn’t about titles or personal power. It’s about leaders in the ecosystem working across boundaries to coalesce around a common agenda, manage tough trade-offs and push for collective action.
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Stakeholders from across the energy, agriculture and finance sectors convened in Paris on April 10 to launch the African Agrivoltaics Platform Initiative (AAPI), a new effort to scale co-located solar and agricultural systems across African markets.
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As countries prepare for phase three of CAADP, a central question emerges: what has driven Africa’s progress in transforming its agrifood systems, and what do these lessons mean for the Kampala Agenda?
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If approached with ambition and balance, trade can become one of the most powerful levers for a new era of collaboration between Africa and Germany and, eventually, across the entire Africa-Europe partnership.
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Today’s bioeconomy is largely driven by science. In the African context, where many countries are still at the early stages of developing their bioeconomy, there is an opportunity to integrate modern science with traditional knowledge.
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From Rwanda to Morocco, countries across the continent are making progress in addressing governance and regulatory challenges, while strengthening institutional capacity to mobilise and manage finance for agrifood transformation.
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As Africa enters the CAADP Kampala era, centering evidence and multistakeholder cooperation will provide viable pathways for domestication and robust implementation toward sustainable and resilient agrifood systems.
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Policy coherence has emerged as a key element to ensure the effectiveness of policy for improved food systems performance. GAIN & AKADEMIYA2063 have been working over the past year to develop a tool to diagnose food systems policy cohererence.
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ReSAKSS has been pivotal in operationalizing two mutual accountability processes – the CAADP Biennial Reviews and agriculture Joint Sector Reviews. ReSAKSS’ support to these critical processes has contributed to policy advancements across Africa.
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A recent report by the Malabo Montpellier Panel demonstrates opportunities to tackle a dual conundrum – achieve continental ambitions on food systems transformation while solving unemployment in Africa.
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Most African countries have not reached the Malabo target of investing 10% of their national budgets in agriculture. However, focusing only on the Malabo target disguises the fact that public investment in agriculture has risen significantly.
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Following the move from IFPRI to AKADEMIYA2063, ReSAKSS, AGRODEP, and the MaMo Panel have all continued and expanded their activities. As part of its expansion, AKADEMIYA2063 has added a new, innovative program: the Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa).
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Assessments by ReSAKSS underscore the importance of efforts to promote the use of BR data by showing the potential for BR data to guide policymaking. The assessments, based on key informant interviews and online surveys, show that policy...
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In most countries, agriculture joint sector reviews (JSR) meet once or twice a year and bring together a broad group of agriculture sector stakeholders to guide sector planning and performance review in support...
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Africa's food systems are greatly affected by climate change due to agriculture's significant role in the economy and employment. The African Union is prioritizing resilience and adaptation to reduce the economic losses caused by droughts.
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Every time an African country faces a crisis, from conflicts, droughts, health emergencies, and, most recently, the Russia-Ukraine war and the COVID-19 pandemic, we are reminded of the persistently high level of chronic vulnerability...
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Complying with international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards has become critical to trade and healthy food systems. The World Trade Organization (WTO) allows governments to use SPS measures to protect human, animal and plant health...
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Transforming Africa into the image and likeness of the seven Aspirations of the African Union's (AU) Agenda 2063, the blueprint and master plan for remodeling the continent into the global ...
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Even though Africa accounts for the smallest share of global greenhouse gas emissions, at just 3.8%, the continent is particularly vulnerable to climate change. According to the World ...
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As of May 2022, 45 African countries had submitted updated versions of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), underscoring the continent's commitment to global ...
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Through the 2014 Malabo Declaration, African leaders committed to conduct a biennial review (BR) to track country progress toward achieving commitments aimed at steering agricultural ...
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In March 2018, African governments signed an agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a turning point for African regional and international trade...
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Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to life as we know it, with wide-ranging spill-over effects permeating various sectors. While Africa fared better than predicted in...
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On the 18th of October 2021, the United Nations Academic Impact Hub for SDG 2 (hosted by the University of Pretoria) in collaboration with the Malabo Montpellier Panel hosted a panel discussion on...
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The journey to achieving “The Africa We Want” circa 2063 is fraught with history, opportunities, but perhaps most importantly, lessons. As the continent stays the course to prosperity towards ...
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Moderating the launch of the AATM today during the AGRF 2021, was Ms. Sara Mbago-Bhunu, Director, East and Southern Africa Division, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). She noted that the 2021 Africa ...
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Madagascar is on the brink of the world’s first “climate change famine”, the UN has warned. The worst drought in 40 years has pushed more than a million people in the country to the verge of starvation...
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Like in much of Africa, agriculture remains the dominant source of livelihoods in West and Central Africa (WCA). More than 50 percent of the region’s labor force relies on agriculture for nourishment, income, and employment...
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The need to rethink policy and craft intelligent systems for the expansion of Africa’s economic recovery gains is even more urgent against the backdrop of global development challenges such...
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has illuminated inequities that have put poor people—in both low-income nations and in rich countries—at the greatest risk of suffering. Pope Francis recently pointed to that in an interview...
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The RDC is a competition created by ReSAKSS with the aim of getting enthusiastic data users to showcase their creativity and analytical skills using data and other resources on the ReSAKSS website...
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In the 2014 Malabo Declaration, African leaders pledged to conduct a continent-wide Biennial Review (BR) to monitor and report on progress in achieving seven commitments, including ending hunger and halving poverty by 2025...
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