About the Africa Food Systems Forum Summit

Africa's Food Systems Forum 2024 Summit’s theme, Innovate, Accelerate and Scale: Delivering Food Systems Transformation in a Digital and Climate era focuses on the theme of Scaling Innovations in Food Systems.

The AFS Forum 2024 Annual Summit

The AFS Forum 2024 annual summit theme emphasizes unlocking the creative potential of youth and women to accelerate at scale economic development, alongside digital innovations for sustainable, equitable, and climate-resilient food systems. The theme focuses on three key actions: innovate, accelerate, and scale: Delivering food systems in a digital and climate era.




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Climate-Resilient Crops are Key to Africa’s Food and Nutrition Security

By Enock Chikava, Director, Agricultural Delivery Systems, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation After the recent 2024 Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali, one key theme stands out: the need to prioritize food and nutrition security within Africa’s broader climate agenda. This urgency cannot be overstated. Africa is at the forefront of an escalating climate crisis that […]

Rethinking and Regenerating Our Food Systems

The potential of regenerative agriculture to transform food systems was a key theme at this year’s Africa Food Systems Forum. Our partner SNV released a position paper going into the detail of how regenerative agriculture can address urgent challenges like soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate resilience. This repost highlights insights from SNV’s position on […]

The role of intra-African trade in Africa’s food systems transformation

Benoit Gnonlonfin Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS), Global Program Lead, CABI Intra-African trade in agricultural commodities can transform Africa into a food-secure region, especially as climate change increasingly affects markets. However, without strict food safety guidelines, cross-border trade risks distributing unsafe food. In 2005, Nigeria benefited from bumper harvests due to favorable weather and effective policies […]