WEBINAR: Strengthening the African Agricultural Research and Development Towards improved Africa Food System

16 February 2021. 

Strengthening the African Agricultural Research and Development Towards improved Africa Food System.

The main objective of this consultative meeting is to provide a platform for key stakeholders in the agricultural research for development space to discuss salient options for the AR4D mechanisms to strengthen the food system on the African continent. The session will further allow participants to think through how to engineer a repositioning of Africa for the attainment of the SDGs within the decade, given the emerging BR Reports.

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The specific objectives are:

1. To facilitate a consultative e-Forum to review the major issues and challenges confronting the African food system.
2. To elucidate pragmatic game-changing options for the African food systems given the short time frame to 2030.
3. To propose solutions that will enhance the deployment of science and innovation to provide the necessary catalysts of the food systems in Africa in the context of S3A.
4. To come up with the One Africa Voice (policy brief) to the 2021 UN Food System Summit on AR4D (African message to the Summit).
5. To provide modalities of moderating comments on the six (6) Papers (Draft) of the Group.
6. To develop and present the African strategy trajectory to the pre-summit and the main Summit.

Speakers:

• Opening - Dr Alioune Fall (Chairman Board of Directors, FARA) 
• Prof Joachim von Braun (Chair, UN FSS Science Group) 
• Scene setting - Dr Akinbamijo (ED-FARA) 
• Keynote Paper: Raising the Productivity of Africa’s Food systems: A question of Science Technology and Innovation Dr Abebe Haile-Gabriel (ADG FAO Africa) 

Synthesizing the African Voice: A panel discussion 

• Dr. Harold Roy-Macauley 
• Dr. Angela Moreno 
• Prof. Florence Wanbugu 
• Dr. Shadrack Moephuli 
• Dr. Dennis Kyetere Executive Director, AATF 
• Comments by SROs CORAF ASARECA CCARDESA AFAAS NAASRO 
• Closing Remarks and way forward Dr Akinbamijo (ED-FARA)