About AGRF

Rapid population growth and devastating food shortages have put food security at the top of the global agenda. Leaders are turning to African agriculture as the answer to the question of how we feed the future.

At the recent G8 Summit, global leaders made bold new commitments to unite the power of the public- and private-sectors, launching the next phase of the global food security effort. The mandate is clear – we must invest in Africa’s potential for rapid and sustainable agricultural growth to raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years.

Topics to be discussed are:

• Revolutionizing agricultural finance: reducing risk, scaling up and reaching out
• Rethinking public-private partnerships: Catalytic policy interventions for transformative change
• Strategic partnership to build African science and technology capacity for agricultural development
• Making regional agricultural markets work