WEBINAR: COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call for Food System Change in Africa

14 July 2020. COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call for Food System Change in Africa. A conversation with the African Union and Food Sovereignty Activists (AFSA) from all sub-regions of Africa.

AFSA Chairperson Dr Chris Macoloo (Kenya) asked following questions to representatives from the African Union Commission and activists from across the continent:

• What guidance is the African Union giving to member states, and to what extent is it working?
• Where are African people getting their food? How are the markets systems coping?
• What is the situation of women and young people?
• What is the impact on pastoralists and their livestock?
• What is the situation north of the Sahara?
• Where do we see the role of the industrial food system in the COVID crisis?
• What are the implications for food sovereignty?
• What is happening to support the transition to agroecology?

Webinar Speakers 

• Dr Laila Lokosang CAADP Adviser Food and Nutrition Security @Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union 
• Josephine Atangana Expert in gender and entrepreneurship @Platform of Farmers' Organizations of Central Africa (PROPAC) 
• Omar Aziki A trade union activist in the agriculture sector. @North African Network for Food Sovereignty
• Charles Dhewa - Knowledge Transfer Africa, Zimbabwe
• Mariama Sonko - We are the solution West Africa