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MONEYWISE: Policy Innovations to Finance Africa's Agrifood Systems.
The Malabo Montpellier Forum provides a platform to facilitate dialogue and exchange among high-level decision-makers on African agriculture, nutrition, and food security and to promote policy innovation using evidence produced by the Malabo Montpellier Panel, a group of 17 leading African and international experts in agriculture, ecology, nutrition, and food security.
The Forum Co-Chairs are H.E. Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki, African Union Special Envoy for Food Systems and Former Prime Minister of Niger, and H.E. Dr. Assia Ben Salah Alaoui, Ambassador at Large to His Majesty King Mohamed VI of Morocco. The Forum meets twice a year, and every meeting is guided by a technical report prepared by members of the Malabo Montpellier Panel.
Themed MONEYWISE: Policy Innovations to Finance Africa's Agrifood Systems, the Panel's forthcoming report focuses on successful approaches, including institutional and policy innovations, as well as programmatic interventions, implemented by African countries to strengthen financing and investments toward the transformation of agrifood systems.
It reviews the current state of Africa's agrifood systems' finances and investments, the needs and barriers in financing agrifood systems, and the strategic financial interventions to leverage opportunities for transforming Africa's agrifood systems. The report also includes three country case studies on Rwanda, Malawi, and Morocco — countries that have shown progress in financing their agrifood systems.
The Forum will consist of three parts: a technical segment drawing on the report's findings and recommendations, reflections on the outcomes and lessons from the report, and a high-level policy roundtable comprising senior representatives from African governments, academia, development partners, civil society, and the private sector.
The Malabo Montpellier Panel is jointly facilitated by AKADEMIYA2063 and the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn.
