The event together with its many follow-on activities are designed to energize political will and advance the policies, programs, and investments required to achieve an inclusive and sustainable agricultural transformation across the continent.
AGRF 2018 Program Focus Areas
Institutional Capacity Development for Transformation
Mapping key institutions and stakeholders, analysing institutional capacity strengths and gaps, and exploring ways of developing capacities in institutions necessary for the attainment of an agricultural transformation agenda.
Youth Participation in Agriculture
Channeling the energy, strength, and dynamism of Africa’s youth into productive, competitive and profi table agribusinesses to boost agricultural productivity, sustainable food production systems, create jobs, and generate incomes.
Agritech and Agribusiness Development
Growing innovations and funding for agri-tech and focus on the real problem of food security and enabling better use of technology to grow the agriculture sector as a whole.
Global and Regional Markets
Exploring Africa’s enhancement of favourable terms of
trade, regional integration, openness to trade, macroeconomic
stability, social and economic infrastructure,
gender equality and enterprise development.
Resilience of Africa’s
Agricultural
Systems
Enhancing the capacities of agricultural and food
systems to cope with climate variability so as to improve
productivity and resilience.
Africa’s Nutrition Challenge
Meaningfully incorporating the nutrition elements into the
concept of food security
Extracts of the programme (48 pages)
Additional videos
Extracts of the programme (48 pages)
Additional videos
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