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OpinionFour writers in an AGRA commentary say sub-Saharan Africa loses about 23% of its food between harvest and market, that the 2035 target to halve losses has no baseline, and that storage technology spreads only when markets make it pay.
OpinionAGRA communications chief Aggie Konde argues that African institutions should be organised and judged by whether they jointly raise the returns of farming enterprises, not by roads built or budgets spent one by one.
OpinionAGRA president Alice Ruhweza and IFPRI director general Johan Swinnen argue that the new Youth in Agrifood Systems Performance Index, which scored 11 pilot countries at just 1.55 out of 5, should guide policy and investment.
At the Africa Food Systems Forum closing in Kigali, Israel Smart Obidah's Smartel Agri-tech, 7,000-plus hydroponic units using up to 90% less water, and Nabakka Sandra's Sandi AI Technologies, which has reached 10,000 savings groups and financed over US$4 million of solar irrigation, won AGRA's Ge
Formalised in Kigali on 4 September as the Africa Food Systems Forum closed, the partnerships target three traps named in AGRA's Impact, Learning and Foresight Report, productivity, value and capability, through farmer-centred transformation, a strengthened Knowledge Hub and investable pathways fo
