Boosting the Resilience of Family Farmers to Adapt to Food Crises through Improved Access to Technologies and Innovations in Africa

Family farmers are central to food security, nutrition, and sustainable development in Africa, contributing up to 70 percent of the food supply. Tailored interventions are needed more than ever to empower smallholders and family farmers to mitigate the impacts of recent global and local crises, strengthen their resilience, and take advantage of the increasing opportunities in African agrifood systems afforded by accelerated digitalization, growth in food markets, and developments in science, technology and innovation.

As part of activities for the UN Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028, UNDFF), join us for this regional dialogue, co-organized by FAO and IFAD, with family farmers’ organizations and other key stakeholders. The event will focus on the role of family farmers, solutions to overcome challenges, best practices, experience-sharing and the development of the African Regional Action Plan for family farmers. The outcomes of the regional dialogue will help to inform discussions at the Global Forum on the UNDFF (19-22 September 2022). 

Time: 9-12pm GMT, 9-12pm Dakar / 11am-1pm Rome / 12-3pm Nairobi

Register now for this online Zoom event here.

Background

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to face significant challenges to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda, particularly from conflicts, disasters, crises and the impacts of climate change. Despite gradual progress made, several countries in the region are not on track to eliminate poverty and attain zero hunger (Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2). Between 2019 and 2021, the number of the extreme poor in Africa rose from 481 million to 490 million people1. In 2021, there were more than 281 million hungry people(21 percent of the population in Africa), an increase of 89.1 million people since 2014.