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Faced with the consequences of climate change, the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the objective is to improve the food sovereignty of the countries of the continent. Sixteen Heads of State and Government made the trip.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac
This summit wants to register in the dynamics of Africa solutions said President Macky Sall during the opening ceremony, ” an Africa that taps into its enormous potential to feed itself and help feed the world ».
It is time, according to Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairman of the African Union Commission: In the current African time, food and nutritional sovereignty should be the soul of our new liberation from food dependence on market fluctuations and cereal prices. How can we consider ourselves as free men when we depend on the food of others to live? »
« The potential is there, but the potential cannot be eaten said the Nigerian Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), which is co-organizing the event. ” Technology alone is not enough. We also need infrastructure, roads, energy, storage, irrigation. We need the markets, the food industry, supportive policies and funding… Now let’s turn the political will into decisive action. »
The AfDB promises a global envelope of 10 billion dollars over the next five years to support national food sovereignty strategies, which will be presented to donors until Friday.
