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    Actors Launch Coalition Dedicated to Agroecology in Africa

    Posted On 15 Jan 2021
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
    Comments: 12

    By Richard Adorsu-

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    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Accra, Ghana– About 100 African and European actors have signed a charter of commitment to the development of the agro-pastoral sectors in Africa, particularly in the Sahel; The original initiative aims to resize and strengthen agricultural cooperation between Europe and Africa while ensuring the protection of biodiversity, a global common good.

    The recent health crisis has revealed the resilient capacities of African agriculture. Faced with the closing of borders, the drop of the purchasing power in urban areas, the major disruptions in the international market of raw materials and the availability of agricultural labor generally unaffected both by the virus and the traffic restrictions, the high demand for food products in cities has been a powerful incentive to the increase and the flow of local productions.

    Under these conditions, more than ever, agriculture should be one of the main levers of development on the continent. In this respect, a paradigm shift appears indispensable. Thus, the modernization of this sector, particularly through agro-ecology, digital agriculture, and social business, must once again become a priority. It is an economic, social, environmental, security and democratic issue. To meet these multidimensional challenges, more than hundred operators from all parts of the agricultural value chain, launched on the sidelines of the One Planet Summit 2021, IAM Africa.

    A coalition of private and public actors have committed to the sanctuarization of biodiversity, a global common good, and to the development of sustainable agricultural sectors. The multilateral initiative was formalized in the presence of the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, the President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El-Ghazaouani, and HRH Prince of Wales.

    Knowing that Africa represents an exceptional lever of growth, companies, employers’ organizations, African and European institutions in the agricultural and livestock sectors have decided to join forces to form a team with multiple expertise’s that are driven by the common desire to provide an appropriate response to this major issue.
    With this shared ambition, the signatories of the present charter intend to jointly prospect and develop value chains that meet precisely to African issues.

    Since co-development is at the heart of the ethics shared by all the signatories, a significant part of these activities will be the responsibility of local actors, which is promoting technology transfers and the appropriation of the know-how necessary to the sustainable implementation of the agricultural and livestock production sectors envisaged by IAM Africa.

    “The objective of the signatories, through their commitment to deploying this approach in most Africa, is to participate in the promotion of a strategy combining social, environmental and economic development in the service of prosperity but also the preservation of biodiversity and more generally the stability of the continent”, mentions Karim Ait Talb, co-founder of the initiative and Deputy Managing Director of the Advens/Géocoton Group.

    The signatory partners of this coalition specifically commit themselves to participate in the achievement of the 2030 objectives of “the Great Green Wall”. The Sahelian strip is identified as one of the global “hotspots” of climate change. In this region, it is essential to provide answers to the tensions on natural resources to meet the objectives of sustainable development and preserve biodiversity. The structuring of agro-livestock value chains that encourage the deployment of agro-ecological practices and the creation of decent and sustainable jobs will be an important response to the adaptation of the region’s populations and to the mitigation of the effects of climate change, particularly in terms of migration flows and security challenges.

    “The Presidential Council for Africa has been mobilized since 2018 for the structuring of the agricultural value chains in the Sahel and has conducted several missions to meet field actors in order to work on concrete solutions that have an impact on nutrition, on the creation of decent jobs and on the inclusion of vulnerable populations. IAM Africa is a new scheme where French, African and international companies who commit and are ready to invest in the agro-ecological sectors of the future. I invite all companies who share these values to sign the charter available  on the CPA website”, says Wilfrid Lauriano Do Rego, partner of the initiative and Coordinator of the Council for Africa (CPA).

     

    For New Africa Business News Richard Adorsu Reports,  Africa Correspondent

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    12 Comments

    1. Noel January 15, 2021 at 2:53 am Reply

      Agroecology is an other great opportunity for our great Continent. Is really picking up all over the Continent. Thank you for reporting. Gaborone Botswana. Nobel

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    2. Joseph January 15, 2021 at 3:00 am Reply

      Thanks for the report. Agriculture, should be prioritize. More money should be invested for modern mechanizing agriculture. Great investment. Lusaka Zambia. Joseph

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    3. Andy January 15, 2021 at 3:03 am Reply

      I like to thank you for the newsletters. Love it. Oxford, England. Andy

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    4. Bose January 15, 2021 at 3:07 am Reply

      Journalist Richard, thank you for covering Agroecology. This way of farming, is the future of farming. Thank you, again. Abuja Nigeria. Bose

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent January 15, 2021 at 3:08 am Reply

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    5. Martin January 15, 2021 at 3:14 am Reply

      In Afrika we have the most fertile lands and younger population, than any where in world. Time to invest more money in agriculture. Thank you very much, for the report. Kigali Luanda. Martin

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    6. Barbara January 15, 2021 at 6:29 am Reply

      I love your report Journalist Adorsu, Agro-Ecology is the way to go. Barbara in Accra, Ghana

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent January 15, 2021 at 11:55 pm Reply

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