Regenerative food systems in Africa: scaling solutions to empower smallholder farmers

Over the coming decades, smallholder farmers throughout Africa will play a pivotal role in supporting the continent’s economic development and enabling food security. However, these farmers currently face numerous constraints that hinder their productivity and profitability. Challenges include a lack of support and access to resources such as financing, technology, inputs, and markets.

Accelerating Africa’s regenerative agricultural transformation requires a farmer-centric, ecosystem-led approach that involves actors across the whole value chain. Impactful partnerships and collaborations between farmers, governments, developmental organisations, entrepreneurs, food companies, and stakeholders must yield innovative solutions to help smallholder farmers overcome this complex set of constraints. Access to resources and opportunities through resilient value chains is essential to optimising profitability and improving smallholder livelihoods.

Our panel of experts will drew from real-world examples and experiences, as they discussed:

This webinar was moderated by Toby Webb, founder of Innovation Forum.

This was the second part in the Focus on Farmers webinar series, hosted in partnership with Bayer Crop Science.

The recording will be uploaded in the coming days. 

To watch the first part in this series, focusing on the regenerative transition in Europe, click here.