Helping Africa Build Resilient, Equitable, and Sustainable Food Systems
Summary
TLDRIn 2020, Africa faced unprecedented challenges due to COVID-19, particularly impacting the most vulnerable. Despite setbacks in health and poverty reduction, the continent harnessed innovation in agriculture—a key sector for prosperity. The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), with its partnerships and knowledge, focuses on supporting smallholder farmers, improving access to inputs, and linking them to markets. The forum emphasizes the importance of agricultural transformation to address hunger, poverty, and environmental issues, using the pandemic as a catalyst for planning a sustainable and transformative future.
Takeaways
- 🌎 The year has been challenging, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable, with plans and strategies disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 📉 Significant gains in health and poverty reduction have been lost during the pandemic, affecting Africa and its agricultural sector.
- 🌾 Despite setbacks, there is a reminder of the potential for progress, even in difficult times, through harnessing the continent's resources.
- 🔄 The pandemic has highlighted the importance of focusing on the strengths of African economies, particularly agriculture.
- 🌱 Agriculture is crucial for Africa's recovery and prosperity post-COVID-19, emphasizing the need for transformation in the sector.
- 🤝 The AGRF (African Green Revolution Forum) is vital for exploring and building solutions to support agricultural transformation.
- 📚 AGRF's collaborations and publications, such as the Africa Agricultural Status Report, are key to supporting the agricultural sector.
- 🏆 Recognitions like the Africa Food Prize by AGRF are part of the efforts to drive innovation and improvement in agriculture.
- 👨🌾 Smallholder farmers are central to Africa's agricultural backbone, and AGRF works to improve their access to inputs and markets.
- 🚧 Infrastructure like roads and energy is essential to link farmers to markets and ensure the safety and quality of agricultural products.
- 🌱 Agricultural transformation is key to addressing long-term challenges like hunger, poverty, and climate change in Africa.
Q & A
What challenges did the year 2020 present, particularly for the poorest and most vulnerable?
-The year 2020 presented unprecedented challenges, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable, due to the emergence of COVID-19, which led to setbacks in health and poverty gains.
How has the pandemic impacted Africa's progress in health and poverty reduction?
-The pandemic has resulted in the loss of hard-won gains on health and poverty in Africa, highlighting the need for a focus on the continent's strengths and opportunities.
What role does agriculture play in Africa's economy and recovery post-COVID-19?
-Agriculture is a cornerstone of Africa's prosperity and is key to building back better after the COVID-19 pandemic, as most of Africa's economies are driven by it.
Why are forums like the AGRF important in the context of Africa's agricultural transformation?
-Forums like the AGRF are crucial as they explore and build solutions to support transformational change in the agricultural sector, leveraging the continent's strengths and opportunities.
What are some of the initiatives being undertaken to support smallholder farmers in Mozambique?
-Initiatives include working with input providers to demonstrate the best use of seeds and fertilizers to increase productivity, and ensuring that smallholder farmers have access to markets.
What infrastructure is needed to link smallholder farmers to the market?
-Infrastructure needed includes roads for transporting produce to markets, energy for proper storage and processing of perishable goods, and addressing food safety for consumer protection.
How does the AGRF contribute to the support of smallholder farmers?
-The AGRF contributes by bringing together a wealth of experience, partnerships, and knowledge through collaborations and initiatives aimed at supporting the backbone of Africa, the smallholder farmer.
What are some of the long-term issues that agricultural transformation can help tackle in Africa?
-Agricultural transformation can help tackle long-term issues such as hunger, poverty, environmental degradation, and climate change in Africa.
How does the AGRF plan to use the challenge of COVID-19 to drive agricultural transformation?
-The AGRF aims to use the COVID-19 challenge as a catalyst for planning a way forward for agricultural transformation, to address and solve large, persistent problems in Africa.
What is the significance of the Africa Agricultural Status Report (AASR) and the Africa Food Prize in the context of the AGRF?
-The AASR and the Africa Food Prize are significant as they provide trailblazing recognition and knowledge, contributing to the service of Africa's smallholder farmers and the overall agricultural sector.
What is the call to action for the audience in the context of the AGRF 2020?
-The call to action is to join the AGRF 2020 to contribute to making agricultural transformation happen, leveraging the collective efforts and resources to overcome the challenges faced by Africa's agricultural sector.
Outlines
🌱 Agricultural Transformation Amidst Challenges
The paragraph discusses the difficulties faced by the poorest and most vulnerable during the unprecedented challenges of 2020, particularly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite setbacks in health and poverty, there is a focus on the potential for positive change, especially in Africa's agricultural sector. The importance of forums like the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) is highlighted for exploring and building solutions for transformational change. Agriculture is identified as a key sector for Africa's recovery and prosperity, with a need to harness the continent's strengths and opportunities. The paragraph emphasizes the importance of supporting smallholder farmers with access to inputs, linking them to markets, and addressing food safety and other challenges to ensure agricultural transformation contributes to solving long-term issues like hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation.
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Keywords
💡Covid-19
💡Agriculture
💡AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa)
💡Smallholder Farmers
💡Productivity
💡Market Access
💡Food Safety
💡Hunger and Poverty
💡Environmental Degradation
💡Climate Change
💡Transformational Change
Highlights
2020 has been a challenging year, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable populations.
Plans and strategies were developed and implemented to address the hardships.
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced unprecedented challenges, affecting Africa and its agricultural sector.
Health and poverty gains were reversed during the pandemic, impacting the most vulnerable.
Despite setbacks, the potential for progress in Africa remains, especially in agriculture.
Agriculture is key to Africa's economic recovery post-COVID-19.
The need to focus on the strengths of Africa's economies, such as agriculture, has been emphasized by the pandemic.
Forums like the AGRF are crucial for exploring and building solutions for agricultural transformation.
Agriculture is the cornerstone of Africa's prosperity, and AGRF plays a significant role in its development.
AGRF brings together a wealth of experience, partnerships, and knowledge to support smallholder farmers.
In Mozambique, efforts are being made to improve smallholder farmers' access to inputs and increase productivity.
Linking smallholder farmers to markets is essential for their success.
Infrastructure like roads and energy is necessary for moving and processing agricultural products.
Food safety is a critical issue that needs to be addressed for the agricultural sector.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a significant challenge, but hunger, poverty, and environmental issues persist.
Agricultural transformation is vital for addressing long-term issues in Africa.
The pandemic should be used as an opportunity to plan for agricultural transformation and solve large-scale problems.
AGRF 2020 is a platform to make agricultural transformation happen.
Transcripts
it's been a tough year
with tough times for all but
particularly
for the poorest and most vulnerable
plans were made
strategies set resolutions made and
rolled out
then 2020 took a sharp turn into
unprecedented territory
kobit 19 was a brand new challenge
africa
and also agra has had to face
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hard wound gains on health and poverty
have been lost
during the pandemic but despite the
setbacks
we are reminded as always by what is
possible
even when things are hard
when the energies innovation and
resources of the continent
are harnessed with the majority of
africa's economies
driven by agriculture agriculture
transformation
even when times are hard is key to
building back better
after the kovit 19 pandemic has passed
this pandemic has made clear the need to
focus on the strengths
and opportunities of our economies such
as agriculture
it means that forums like the agrf where
solutions
are explored and built to support
transformational change
in the agricultural sector are more
important than ever
agriculture is the cornerstone
of africa's prosperity
agref brings together wealth of
experience
breadth of partnerships and depth of
knowledge through powerful
collaborations
such as piata renowned publications such
as the africa agricultural status report
aasr trailblazing recognitions
such as the africa food prize and more
all in service to the backbone of africa
the smallholder farmer we have found
that
in the mozambique a lot of the
smallholder farmers do not have
ready access to inputs so what we are
doing
is to work with the input providers to
do demonstrations that can show the
farmers
the best ways that they can use a
generation seed
that they can use fertilizers so that
they can bring up
their productivity we need to make sure
that we can link
these small order farmers to
the market you know and that's where you
need the roads
you know moving whatever they produce to
the market
you need energy because some of the food
are so perishable that they need to be
stored properly they need to be
processed
before they get to the market you need
to address the issue
of food safety because you know it's
not only producing but to make sure that
it's safe
for the consumers even though kovid is a
huge challenge
hunger and poverty environmental
degradation
and climate change remain with us
agricultural transformation will be
critical in helping tackling
these long-term issues that need to be
solved in africa
we need to use this challenge of covet
19 to plan a way forward for
agricultural transformation
to help solve these large problems
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let's make it happen at agrf 2020
see you there
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