Agreement boosts efforts to equip farmers with much-needed technologies
Sharm el-Sheikh, November 14, 2022 – Four organizations have come together to strengthen Africa’s food systems. The African Development Bank, the African Union Commission (AUC), the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), and CGIAR have signed an agreement, aligning their efforts to boost food and nutrition security on the continent.
Following consultations* earlier this year, the “Abidjan II” communiqué posits that Africa must urgently transform its food, land, and water systems to ensure food and nutrition security despite multiple threats, including from climate change, conflict, and pandemic. The four signatories will work together to build Africa’s resilience to future shocks by bolstering agricultural research and innovation systems at the national, sub-regional, and continental levels and by equipping farmers with the science and technologies they need to thrive. They will also align institutional structures, funding, strategy, and capacity.
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