Kenya Agribusiness and Agro-industry Alliance

Africa must produce more food instead of relying on imports and aid, Senegalese President Macky Sall told leaders gathered in the West African nation's capital for a summit on Wednesday:

Africa needs to learn to feed itself, says Senegal president Africa must produce more food instead of relying on imports and aid, Senegalese President Macky Sall told leaders gathered in the West African nation's capital for a summit on Wednesday.

*Upcoming Event:*

Africa Food Summit—Unleashing Africa’s Food Potential | 25-27 January, 2023 | Abdou Diouf International Conference Center (CICAD) of Diamniadio in Dakar, Republic of Senegal

At the action-driven *Dakar 2 Summit*, Heads of State will convene meetings to mobilize and align government resources, development partners and private sector financing to unleash Africa’s food production potential. With the removal of barriers to agricultural development aided by new investments, it is estimated that Africa’s agricultural output could increase from $280 billion per year to $1 trillion by 2030.

Investing in raising agricultural productivity, supporting infrastructure, climate smart agricultural systems, with private sector investments all along the food value chain can help turn Africa into a breadbasket for the world.

For more information about the main event:
https://www.afdb.org/en/dakar-2-summit-feed-africa-food-sovereignty-and-resilience

For the Pre-Summit on January 23:
https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/events/pre-africa-food-summit-press-conference-dakar-2-58320

Dakar 2 Summit - Feed Africa: Food Sovereignty and Resilience Africa Food Summit—Unleashing Africa’s Food Potential Registration has now closed. If you are responding to an invitation to the organizers, please contact your focal point for RSVPs. 25-27 January, 2023 About At the action-driven Dakar 2 Summit, Heads of State will convene meetings to mobilize ...

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New Publication:
Food Security Monitor #26, June 2022

Highlights from the latest issue:

🌽 on Russia-Ukraine Conflict: AFFM to support delivery of fertilizer to 200,000 smallholder farmers in Ghana, through ETG Inputs Ghana Ltd

🌽 on Food Security Outlook: South Sudan, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger were food security hotspots in June

🌽 on Food Trade: SADC begun capacitating small-scale farmers in complying with sanitary and phytosanitary measures

🌽 on Commodity Prices: continued upsurge in prices, driven by fall in commodity outputs, rising transport costs and restrictive trade measures

🌽 And much more.

Uploading report in PDF format for your perusal. To view full report online and previous ones, click on the following link:

Food Security Monitor Food Security Monitor June 2022, Edition #26 The goal of AGRA’s Food Security Monitor is to provide an overview assessment of the food security outlook in AGRA focus countries in East, West and Southern Africa, taking into account the movement of prices of main food staples and government interven...

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