In Senegal, opening of the Dakar 2 summit on food in Africa and its “enormous potential”
Macky Sall, the Senegalese president, inaugurates the opening of the Dakar 2 food fair on January 25, 2023. AFP - JOHN WESSELS
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Faced with the consequences of climate change, the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the objective is to improve the food sovereignty of the countries of the continent.
Sixteen Heads of State and Government made the trip.
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With our correspondent in Dakar,
Charlotte Idrac
This summit wants to be part of "
the dynamics of an Africa of solutions
", declared President Macky Sall during the opening ceremony, "
an Africa which taps into its enormous potential to feed itself and help to feed the world
.
It is time, according to Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission: "
In the current African times, food and nutritional sovereignty should be the soul of our new liberation from food dependence on the fluctuations of markets and prices. grain growers.
How can we consider ourselves free men when we depend on other people's food to live?
»
“
The potential is there, but the potential cannot be eaten
,” said Nigerian Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), which is co-organizing the event.
“
Technology alone is not enough.
We also need infrastructure, roads, energy, storage, irrigation.
We need the markets, the food industry, supportive policies and funding… Now let's turn the political will into decisive action.
»
The AfDB promises a global envelope of 10 billion dollars over the next five years to support national food sovereignty strategies, which will be presented to donors until Friday.
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