What:      Africa Food Systems Forum 2023

Who:       African Development Bank

When:     5 September 2023; 07:00 to 09:00 CAT

Where:   Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre, Ruaha Hall, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

The African Development Bank will organise a side event at the Africa Food Systems Forum in Dar es Salam, Tanzania, under the title “Post-Dakar 2: Food Sovereignty and Resilience.”

The forum will provide a platform to assess progress on implementing outcomes of the Africa Food Summit, also known as the Dakar 2 Summit. It will bring together representatives from governments, the private sector, multilateral organisations, development partners, civil society, and researchers. They will discuss priorities and alignment of investment projects and mobilisation of financing for agriculture in Africa. 

The event will feature two panel discussions for African Development Bank governors,  and development partners. There will also be  private sector sessions on topical issues that advance Africa’s agricultural transformation. Topics of discussion include the following:

• Africa’s food resilience and sovereignty imperatives after Dakar 2.
• Partnership and resources mobilisation around the food and agriculture delivery compacts to achieve food security at scale.
• The African Development Bank’s Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones initiative and roles of investors and private sector players for going to scale, post-Dakar 2.
• Financial intermediation for the future of Dakar 2: risk-sharing facility and non-sovereign operations perspectives.

List of speakers:

• Hussein Bashe, Minister of Agriculture of Tanzania
• Ali Ngoulie, Minister of Agriculture, Rural Equipment and Food Sovereignty of Senegal
• Demba Sabally, Minister of Agriculture of The Gambia
• António Francisco de Assis, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of Angola
• Henry Musa Kpaka, Minister of Agriculture and Food security of Sierra Leone
• Martien van Nieuwkoop, Global Director, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, World Bank
• Donal Brown, Vice President International Fund for Agricultural Development
• Simeon Ehui, Regional Director, Continental Africa, CGIAR, and Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
• Nivedh Shetty, Marketing Head-Benin, ARISE IIP
• Martin Fregene, Director of Agriculture and Agro-Industry, African Development Bank

 

Moderator: Victor Oladokun, Senior Advisor (Communications and Stakeholder Engagement) to the President of the African Development Bank