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Friday, January 27, 2023

Mobilising African Food Policy and Action for Healthy Food Systems

AFSA shared 16 January 2023 a complete playlist of videos from the 4th AFSA Biennial Food Systems Conference, which took place in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from November 28-30, 2022, under the theme "Mobilising African Food Policy and Action for Healthy Food Systems." 

Over 170 people attended the conference, which brought
together actors from over 30 countries.

In recognition of the African Union's Year of Nutrition 2022, this year's conference highlighted novel approaches for learning and celebrating African food cultures, foods, diets, and cuisines to advance an African perspective on nutrition and food systems.

The event also marked the official launch of the "My Food Is African" campaign, which aims to inspire Africans to seek and demand traditional foods, dishes, diets, and cuisines. The traditional cooking
activity, which intends to stir up people's interest in learning about Africa's unique, delicious, and

healthy foods and cultures, was the conference's highlight, and it aims to foster a safer, healthier, and more sustainable path to food sovereignty. As people from different countries learned new recipes, they enjoyed the variety, vitality, and depth of our food culture.

At the conclusion of the conference, AFSA members and participants call on the African Union, African governments, social movements, and donor communities around the world to direct funding toward agroecology, which builds resilience in food systems in the face of unpredictable events and multilayered crises that the continent has encountered. They also urge the African Union Commission (AUC) to base the development of the emerging Food Systems Policy on the diverse cultural foods and dishes of Africa, recognizing their importance to people's health and nutritional security.

See the synopsis of the three days and some insightful interviews


Check here to see the full list of videos and interviews from the food systems conference.

Click here to see how traditional African dishes are made. (My Food Is African)


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Dans le cadre de sa campagne #Authenticitéalimentaire en collaboration avec AFSA le CNPAF RDC organise ce vendredi 27 Janvier un atelier de restitution de la Cartographie de la production des aliments locaux et traditionnels en Republique Democratiwque du Congo  réalisée par le professeur et consultant Théophile MBEMBA FUNDU, qui poursuit comme objectifs la validation de cette étude et l’élaboration d’une feuille de route en faveur de la promotion et la valorisation de la production des aliments locaux

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