Pathé Sene, le Directeur Général de l'AGRF, est responsable de la croissance stratégique et de la gestion quotidienne de son secrétariat en tant que forum indépendant, panafricain et multipartenaire. Avant de rejoindre l'AGRF, Pathé était le principal spécialiste régional de l'environnement et du changement climatique pour le FIDA en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, basé à Rome et plus tard à Abidjan. Il a également été directeur du bureau sous-régional du FIDA à Abidjan et directeur de pays...

Dans cet épisode Tanya Alden-Zeter discute avec Célia Chabi. Elle est fondatrice de Kiel bien-être, une enterprise qui spécialise dans la production et la commercialisation de produits très nutritifs à base de baobab. Du café au baobab, jusqu'aux croquettes et des baumes et pommades fabriqués avec le baobab, ces produits sont adaptés pour tout le monde, y compris les femmes enceintes, les enfants et les personnes agées. Une psychosociologue, Célia est passionée par la nature et par la...

On this episode we speak to Fatou Manneh, founder of Jelmah Herbella, which was created to add value to products produce in the Gambia and to contribute to unleash the growth potentials of rural women and farmers. Fatou is the 2022 winner of the rising star award for young female agripreneur for The VALUE4HER Women Agripreneurs of the Year Awards (WAYA), awards which aim to create visibility for successful women and promote them as positive role models, trigger innovation, and spur ambition...

An inspirational conversation with start-up founder Tei Mukunya, with Umuliza Njiru  communication lead at the Rockerfeller Foundation’s Africa Regional Office, about how Tei was inspired by using healthy food products and watching her family trying to dry foods to start her own food brand. We discuss the challenges with getting products to the market as an SME, developing resilience, the importance of having mentors and advisors, the Good Food Innovation Fund and working hard to help make...

Cyril Ugwu, Country Director for IDH Nigeria office and also leader of the IDH casava programme, talks to Elske Stevenson, Senior Communications Manager at IDH, about how IDH put ‘people, planets and progress’ at the heart of trade by levering the power of markets to create better jobs and opportunities for all with a focus on SMEs and farmers at the core of their support offerings. He tells us about the Cassava Progamme and the work they are doing to streamline and increase farming...

UN Climate Champions' Fiona Napier talks to Jack Kimani, CEO Climate Action Platform for Africa (CAP-A) about looking at a different approach to how Africa approaches climate change. Kimani discusses moving away from the dominant narrative of the damage caused and towards the opportunities for the continent to benefit from tackling these issues, but in so doing being able to create an engine for economic growth and job creation. He suggests how a lot of Africa’s assets – energy, vast amounts...

Dr. Florence Wambugu, Kenyan plant pathologist and virologist, is known for her advocacy of using biotechnology to increase food production in Africa. On this episode we talk about how life and work changed since she won the Africa Food Prize, her work with Africa Harvest, scaling and diversifying across Africa, partnering with development and doners, tissue culture, developing innovative seed systems to move from low productivity to high and changing the fortunes of farmers on the ground,...

On this episode we learn all about the fantastic Rockerfeller Foundation Schools' Feeding Program and discuss Regenerative Agriculture, diversifying crops, producing food and supporting the environment, how to feed a growing population during climate crises and droughts and other challenges, how to get farmers to understand that the food on the plate is an important as the money in their pocket, the best way to get nutritious food to everyone affordably and much more.  

Wycliffe Ingoi from Advanta Seeds, delivering farming solutions and technology to farmers spanning across 84 countries, highlights why seed quality is so important and how ultimately investing in quality seed will produce a higher yield, serve to protect farmers during a time of climate change and support the development of go-to market strategies. We also explore how governments, providers, farmers and indeed consumers can work together to try to solve the problems of food production.

Lilian Ndungu, leading agriculture tech adviser advising the government of Rwanda and Raj Singh, manager of global agriculture of food advisory at the Tony Blair Institute have an in-depth discussion about the exciting innovations in ag tech, how technology is changing all the way from how we go about our agriculture to even how we eat our food, what technologies should governments adopt that can be sustainability adopted, how to use this information to help farmers make decisions on their...

Young Rwanda farmer, Pacifique Nshimiyimana, whose family have been farming in the eastern province for many generations, discusses how solving the problem of younger generations losing interest in agriculture is the key to solving the food crisis in Africa. He emphasises how getting young people involved in agriculture should be down to the policy makers; making the job cleaner and less manual labour-focused and more technologically advanced and how the most important thing for farmers in...

Umuliza M Njiru, Rockefeller Communications Lead for the African Regional Office speaks to Roy Steiner, Senior VP Rockefeller Foundation discussing how the world has created a food system focusing on food that is actually killing us, how food systems are the number one culprit raising greenhouse gases and how we can move away from this and how governments can really understand processes to enable us to instead build a food system that is both good for us and good for the planet.  Questioning...

Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, Ghanaian plant geneticist, professor and founding director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), talks about his work, his route into the industry and establishing the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement - now one of the largest and most impactful centres in Africa on African crops which has turned out hundreds of PhDs in plant breeding now working in over 15 countries in Africa. On this episode we discuss whether reaching zero-hunger is a...

Gerda Verburg, UN Assistant Secretary General and Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN Movement) discusses how we can transform Africa’s agriculture, the ‘alarm bells’ ringing for the world since Covid 19 and Russia-Ukraine, how good food systems can be the cornerstone for the implementation of sustainable development goals and current trends in food system transformation.

On this episode we talk to Shanni Srivatava, Regional Head of East Africa at UPL Ltd, and find out all about carbon farming, what its potential is across Africa and how it can best benefit smallholder farmers across the continent.

Experts from The Tony Blair Institute, Grant Merrick Head of Agriculture & Food and Liz Kirk Senior Advisor on Agriculture & Food discuss the transforming of agriculture and food systems in Africa and the challenges facing Africa’s governments.

Today's discussion is on rice, the role it plays in tackling food security and stories from the Rice Race initiative. Our guests are Florent Clair, Head of Partnerships for Sustainability, Africa and Middle East UPL and Valentine Miheso, Senior Partnerships Officer, AGRA. 

This episode is a recording of the President Youth Townhall at AGRF 2021 held in Nairobi, Kenya and online with President of Kenya, H. E. Uhuru Kenyatta, spotlighting a new policy approved by the Kenyan Government with the aim of returning agricultural learning and clubs in schools. The AGRF 2022 is on 6th-9th September Kigali Rwanda, please register at AGRF.org to attend and to play your part in the discussions.

Agnes (Aggie) Asiimwe Konde, Vice President of Program Innovation & Delivery at AGRA, and key industry figures discuss what immediate actions and steps are needed to accelerate progress and recovery towards inclusive agricultural transformation in Africa. With: Thom Jayne, Professor of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at Michigan State University and Senior Advisor to the President of the African Development Bank Lulama Ndibongo Traub, Chair of the Technical Committee Regional...

Ron Hartman, Director for Global Engagement, Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation of IFAD (the International Fund for Agriculture Development) shares his perspective on building a new dynamic for food systems in the global south from IFAD’s unique perspective as both an international financing institution (IFI) and also a specialised agency of the United Nations. specialising in supporting the most marginalised and disadvantaged of rural people around the world.

Together with the AGRF's Catherine Ndung'u, Dr. Fadel Ndiame the Deputy President of AGRA, Professor Thom Jayne the University Foundation Professor of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University and Lulama Ndibongo Traub a Lecturer at Stellenbosch University discuss the African Agriculture Status Report (AASR) including what it is, why it is so important and fulfilling the need for an accessible yet credible publication to provide an overview of African agriculture.

For our fourth episode of this series Catherine Ndung’u from the AGRF is joined by Enock Chikava, Deputy Director of the Country Systems Transformation Team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They discuss why Africa’s food systems need to be transformed and what innovations are available to farmers and how agriculture can help countries to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three of twelve 2021 GoGettaz Agripreneur Competition finalists discuss their success. GoGettaz is part of the Generation Africa movement seeking to inspire the next generation of agripreneurs, connecting them to resources they need to succeed. Two entrepreneurs, one woman and one man, will each win 50,000 USD for the most innovative and scalable agri-food business ventures. The winners will be announced at the AGRF Summit on Sept 8th. Please register at www.agrf.org to attend and find out...

For this episode we hear from two Africa Food Prize winners, Dr. Lindiwe Sibanda an animal scientist and practicing farmer and Dr. Catherine Nakalembe a research professor. The Africa Food Prize is a $100,000 award recognizing an outstanding individual or institution that is leading the effort to change the reality of farming in Africa. Lindiwe, the 2013 laureate speaks to Catherine, 2020 laureate to understand the impact of winning the Africa Food Prize and why it’s such an important award.