Building Resilience and Enhancing Nutrition in Africa’s Food Systems

The lack of resilience in today’s food systems in Africa is in urgent need of being addressed, given the significant impact on the goal of universal access to sustainable, healthy diets, as well as many other far-reaching effects.

The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition published a report, launched in early 2025, to look into and address this set of issues. This event will present that work and its vision for building resilience and enhancing nutrition in African food systems– what is needed to deliver, and how that might best be achieved, in line with the potentially transformative Kampala Declaration for African food systems and the next phase of the African Union’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). The report focused on three countries (Ethiopia, Malawi and Sierra Leone), but has lessons for the whole continent.

The event, supported by United Against Malnutrition and Hunger, will help to enhance understanding of these issues, share knowledge about how to address them, foster regional collaboration, and inform the delivery of the Kampala Declaration. There will be speakers from across Africa, providing their insights and responses will be provided by Permanent Representatives based in Rome.