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A small scale farmer Mr Hiti Kamau attending plants in his farm in Kahiga village in Kandara. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]
Over the past two decades, African leaders have made significant strides toward transforming their food systems. The Maputo and Malabo declarations set bold goals for agricultural transformation in Africa, but progress toward these goals has been slow. The recent implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) represents an opportunity to remove trade barriers and strengthen intra-regional trade, thus providing farmers and all other stakeholders along food systems value chains a strong incentivize to increase local production and transform food systems. However, with at least one in five Africans going hungry and the population expected to reach two billion by 2050, urgent action is needed to ensure access to nutritious and enough food for all. However, financing food systems remains the main challenge.
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