The African Development Bank Group, in collaboration with the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism, Sustain Africa, and Yara will host a side event on May 7, 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya on the margins of the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit.

The event will bring together senior government officials and strategists, sector experts to tackle the challenge of building resilience in food systems against financial shocks. Through discussions on public and private sector responses to market volatility, financial risk frameworks for international and domestic actors, and de-risking finance for food and fertilizers, participants will identify concrete financial solutions.

Speakers will include Richard Ofori Mante, African Development Bank Director of Agricultural Finance and Rural Development at the African Development Bank, Musa Sowe, Vice President of the Pan-African Farmers Organization in West Africa, and James Mwangi, CEO of Equity Bank Kenya.

Nearly two decades after the launch of the Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer for the Africa Green Revolution, the continent will convene at the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit. This highly anticipated event aims to establish a 10-year fertilizer and soil action plan alongside the Nairobi Declaration on the same crucial topic

About the co-organizers

• The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism, administered by the African Development Bank Group, is a special fund that provides innovative financing solutions to accelerate fertilizer usage in Africa and improve agricultural productivity across the Bank's regional member countries.
• Sustain Africa is a public-private coordination mechanism that helps smallholder farmers access affordable fertilizer. It focuses on sustaining and improving the productivity of food crops needed to ensure food security for smallholder farmers.
• Yara International is a crop nutrition company and a provider of environmental and agricultural solutions.