AGRF - Africa Food Systems Forum

AGRF- Africa Food Systems Forum

Venue: Julius Nyerere International conference center, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Africa's Food Systems Forum 2023 Summit’s theme, “Recover, Regenerate, Act: Africa’s Solutions to Food Systems Transformation,” focuses on building back better food systems and food sovereignty with youth and women at the center. The theme identifies three steps needed to achieve this transformation: Recovery, Regenerate, and Act.The AGRF is the world’s premier forum for African agriculture, bringing together stakeholders in the agricultural landscape to take practical actions and share lessons that will move African agriculture forward.

The Summit aims to:

• Share African innovations to scale up solutions to global food systems challenges, assess progress made in transforming food systems across the continent and globally.
• Review the progress on investments and commitments made through the summit and the agribusiness deal room.
• Renew political commitments to advancing climate-resilient food systems for women and youth.
• Launch the presidential legacy program - Tanzania’s programmatic business model for piloting and scaling food system transformation.
• Mobilize innovative financing instruments such as catalytic funds to support youth and women-led agribusinesses.

AAAP’s Participation

AAAP will hosting a side event titled, ‘Supporting smallholder productivity and resilience through increased access to investment, information, and innovation’ in partnership with Virginia Tech and Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI)