The Kofi Annan Foundation at the 2018 African Economic Conference

The Kofi Annan Foundation and the African Development Bank are co-hosting a dialogue on Intra-African Food Market Integration: Challenges and Policy Options at the African Economic Conference in Kigali, Rwanda.

Agricultural trade is an important engine for Africa’s economic growth and shared prosperity. It has the potential to foster economic development and job creation, catalyse investments, and help Africa feed itself and the world. African countries have every reason to promote regional food market integration.

This important event will start with a brief presentation of the preliminary findings of the report Intra-African Food Market Integration: Challenges and Policy Options, commissioned by the African Development Bank and the Kofi Annan Foundation.

Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #AEC2018, and tune in to the livestream below at 13:00 local time on 4 December 2018:

Africa is potentially an agricultural powerhouse. The continent has 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land and could grow enough food to meet its own needs and export surpluses. Yet hundreds of millions go hungry. Despite recent progress, Africa’s farmers, most of whom are smallholders, underperform. The Kofi Annan Foundation advocates the transformation of African agriculture to ensure food and nutrition security for all by mobilising leadership and high-level commitment. We bring together leaders from the private sector, civil society and the political sphere to trigger cooperation that benefits farmers and the general population.

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