Global food insecurity is rising while Africa holds the land, people, and potential to feed the world. Under South Africa’s presidency, the B20’s Sustainable Food Systems and Agricultural Task Force has laid out a business case to turn agriculture into a driver of growth. Climate shocks make farming more unpredictable. Conflicts exposing fragile supply chains…
The number of people facing hunger globally declined from 688 million in 2023 to 673 million in 2024, according to a recent report by the five leading United Nations agencies working on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025. But progress has not been equal, with Africa experiencing a slight increase…
Africa’s agricultural leaders, policymakers, and youth innovators have opened the Africa Food Systems Forum 2025 (AFSF) with a message that the continent must move from fragmented progress to systemic transformation, if it is to achieve food security and prosperity. The call was made as AGRA launched its inaugural Africa Food Systems Report (AFSR 2025), which…
Awaza, Turkmenistan — Agriculture is a critical sector in landlocked developing countries, as more than half (55 percent) of the population is employed in the agriculture sector – significantly higher than the global average of 25 per cent. As such, the deterioration of food security in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) is an unfolding catastrophe. There…
The Minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Eric Opoku, has been honoured with the Honorary Ambassador of Agenda 2063 by the Office of the Special Envoy to the African Union, in recognition of his outstanding leadership in agricultural transformation and commitment to advancing food security in Ghana and Africa. He was also presented with the…
Hadija Jabiri Interview with Hadija JabiriFOUNDER and MANAGING DIRECTOR, GBRI (EATFRESH) Lives in: Tanzania Hadija Jabiri is the founder of GBRI, a Tanzanian agribusiness company that started with vegetables and now exports avocados to Europe and India. How we made it in Africa editor-in-chief Jaco Maritz spoke to her about how she built the company…
