Stakeholders in the agricultural sector across the continent
are brainstorming on the family farmers ability to feed Africa and change the
face of the sector, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The Forum, NaijaAgroNet gathered is part of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture
Development Programme (CAADP) framework, coordinated by the five regional
farmers’ organisations namely the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF), ROPPA (Network of Farmers'
and Agricultural Producers' Organisations of West Africa (ROPPA), Southern
African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU), Regional
Platform of Central African Farmers Organization, (PROPAC), Union
Maghrébine et Nord Africaine des Agriculteurs (UMNAGRI) and their
continental platform Pan African Farmers’ Organisation (PAFO) together with the
NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency.
A press statement
made available to NaijaAgroNet
by the duo of Benito Eliasi from SACAU and NEPAD’s Mwanja Ng’anjo, stakeholders
in the agriculture sector are examining the much bigger role in creating
employment to increase disposable income levels and household food security on
the continent.
NaijaAgroNet
gathered that participants focus would be on the potential for sustainable
economic growth, family farming - Africa’s backbone in agriculture.
However in order for the women and men at the helm of
agriculture to reach their full potential, a coalition of partnerships was
required; to bring African agriculture to world class production levels, hence,
the partnership with several regional farmers group, between November 10 and
12, 2014 at the Garden Court within the axis of Tambo International Airport,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
NaijaAgroNet
further gathered that SACAU is a co-host of the forum that is connected to the United
Nations (UN) International Year of Family Farming and the AU Year of
Agriculture and Food Security.
NaijaAgroNet
recalls that this is a strong signal that the international community
recognizes the important contribution of family farmers to world food security.
Noting that in June, African heads of state committed themselves to use
agriculture growth to double food productivity, halve poverty and eliminate
child under nutrition by 2025 when they came up with the Malabo Declaration
following a meeting in Equatorial Guinea.
The role of family farmers on the continent, NaijaAgroNet learnt will be critical
in achieving these goals. While the forum would be attended by farmers and
representatives of their organisations, high-level government representatives,
private sector stakeholders and international role-players and is also open to
representatives who work in, with or for African agriculture.
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