The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) today unveiled a comprehensive report critically examining the African Development Bank’s ambitious Dakar II initiative, part of the broader Feed Africa program. This initiative, titled ‘Feed Africa: Food Sovereignty and Resilience’, aims to revolutionize African agriculture with a focus on turning the continent into a global breadbasket. However, AFSA's analysis raises significant concerns about its approach and implications for small-scale farmers across the continent. AFSA’s in-depth review of the 40 “country compacts” under the Dakar II initiative reveals a strategy heavily reliant on industrializing food systems with a proposed $61 billion budget. This strategy, critics argue, risks marginalizing small-scale farmers, compromising biodiversity, and increasing dependency on multinational corporations for seeds and agrochemicals. The President of Ireland and other voices have highlighted the initiative’s one-size-fits-all methodology, emphasizing large-scale monocropping and high-tech solutions that may be inaccessible to small-scale farmers due to their cost and environmental risks. Representing a coalition of 41 member networks across 50 countries, AFSA stands as a leading critic of the Dakar II compacts, advocating for a shift towards agroecology and food sovereignty. This stance emphasizes sustainable agriculture and the empowerment of small-scale farmers, impacting approximately 200 million individuals and challenging the initiative’s trajectory towards Green Revolution-style industrialization.