2 July 2025. OECD side event: Scaling solutions: Improving food and nutrition governance in the Sahel and West Africa
Focus: Strengthening governance, business models, and regional partnerships to build resilient food systems in Sahel/West Africa. Organised by the OECD/Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) Secretariat.
Over the past decade, the Sahel and West Africa region has experienced an increase in cereal and root crop production per capita. However, food and nutrition security has worsened, with an additional 30 million people affected in the last five years. This situation demonstrates that agricultural growth alone is insufficient to improve food security which is driven by complex, interconnected factors.
The SWAC Secretariat, in collaboration with the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), facilitates the Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) under the political leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). Through the RPCA network, the SWAC Secretariat has recently developed essential governance tools for food security and nutrition.
- Moderator: Sidy Gueye NIANG, Programme Manager, Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (OECD/SWAC)
- Dr Issoufou BAOUA, Director General, Agrhymet Centre, CILSS
- Ms Bintia Stephen TCHICAYA, Representative ad interim in Liberia and Programme Leader for Social Protection for Africa, FAO
- Ms Cecilia García GASALLA, Director of Cooperation with Africa, the Arab World and Asia, AECID
- Dr Conrad REIN, Secretary General, Global Flagship Initiative for Food Security, AGFUND
- Mr Philippe THOMAS, Head of Sector for Crisis and Resilience of Food and Agricultural Systems, European Union
- Mr Jean Pierre SENGHOR, former Executive Secretary of the Food Security National Council, Senegal
- Mr Ahmet BENANE, CONACILSS, Mauritania
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