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During the opening session of a two-day, high-level dialogue entitled, “Feeding Africa: Leadership to Scale Up Successful Innovations,” 18 African heads of state pledged their political and financial commitment to scale up technologies and innovations to transform agriculture in their country. Each leader detailed their shared commitment, as well as national priorities related to agriculture and even their plans for agricultural investment in the coming years.
The virtual High-Level Dialogue on Feeding Africa is co-hosted by the African Development Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), in partnership with the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), the CGIAR System Organization and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.