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New report details “conditions for success” to achieve zero hunger in Africa
On 13 September 2016, a seminar was held in Pretoria, South Africa, to showcase the results of a new report by the NEPAD Agency and the Pardee Center for International Futures titled, “Ending hunger in Africa: Conditions for success”. The report analyses the “conditions for success” if Africa is to achieve the target set by African Union in Agenda 2063 and the 2014 Malabo Declaration on agriculture transformation. The study puts the magnitude of the task into perspective and highlights the major levers in policy, investment, technology as well as human and institutional capacity needed to sustain access to food.
October 5, 2016 - Last update: July 4, 2022
On 13 September 2016, a seminar was held in Pretoria, South Africa, to showcase the results of a new report by the NEPAD Agency and the Pardee Center for International Futures titled, “Ending hunger in Africa: Conditions for success“. The report analyses the “conditions for success” if Africa is to achieve the target set by African Union in Agenda 2063 and the 2014 Malabo Declaration on agriculture transformation. The study puts the magnitude of the task into perspective and highlights the major levers in policy, investment, technology as well as human and institutional capacity needed to sustain access to food.
Charied by Dr Jakkie Cilliers, Head, African Futures and Innovation, ISS, speakers at the event included former SUN Movement Lead Group member, Jay Naidoo of GAIN, and current member of the SUN Movement Lead Group, Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of NEPAD Agency. Mayaki stated that one of the goals set in the 2014 Malabo Declaration through the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), is ending hunger in Africa by 2025. He emphasised that success in Africa will therefore be through regional integration, be it in ending hunger, agriculture or infrastructure. It was concluded that any efforts to eliminate hunger will have to factor in robust risk assessments, including climate change.
We cannot continue doing business as we are doing it today, since growth in Africa has not been inclusive enough. We need improved capacity to implement various interventions to do things differently if we are to deliver on Africa’s Agenda 2063 and the goal of eliminating hunger by 2025.”
Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO, NEPAD and member of the SUN Movement Lead Group
The purposes of this report are
- to describe the path that Africa has been on with respect to reducing hunger and pursuing food security,
- to show where that path would likely lead in the coming years without significant change in policy, and
- to outline the conditions and actions necessary to put Africa on track to eliminating hunger and food insecurity as soon as possible.
