Events

Africa’s Food Systems Forum 2023 Summit’s theme, “Recover, Regenerate, Act: Africa’s Solutions to Food Systems Transformation,” focuses on building back better food systems and food sovereignty with youth and women at the center.

The Smallholder and Agri-SME Finance and Investment Network (SAFIN) will attend the AGRF 2023 to highlight the SME finance agenda alongside Heads of State, Ministers, youth, agribusinesses and agricultural experts.

This official side event of the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment provides insight from donors on ways to make their funding more impactful and catalytic as well as new sources of funding. Co-organized with the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate.

7-9 May 2024 | Nairobi, Kenya, Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) | In-person. The Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health summit will be held to deliberate on Africa’s recent widespread decades-long decline in soil quality of farmland - a phenomenon that continues today and negatively impacts the agricultural production capacity and food security in the continent.

Declining rates of official development assistance (ODA) have propelled donor countries to employ innovative ways to attract more private sector investments to agriculture, notably through blended finance. Join the discussion on where donors think concessional capital is best utilized.