Side Event On the State of the African Fertilizer and Soil Health - Policy, Governance, and Institutional Framework to Accelerate Country Food and Agriculture Delivery Compacts

2 May 2024
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What: Side Event on The State of the African Fertilizer and Soil Health: Policy, Governance, and Institutional Framework to Accelerate Country Food and Agriculture Delivery Compacts
Who: The African Development Bank Group
When: Tuesday, 7 May 2024; 5PM - 6:30PM EAT (GMT +3)
Where: Kenyatta International Convention Center, Amphitheatre Hall (2nd Floor), Nairobi, Kenya

The Leadership for Agriculture (L4Ag), an initiative of the African Development Bank and its partners, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation will be hosting a high-level side event during the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.

The event will bring together ministries of agriculture and other relevant ministries, development partners, private sector operators in agro-inputs (seed, agro-chemicals, and fertilizer), investment agencies, academia, and civil society organizations as well as experts from across Africa and beyond.

Participants will discuss and share experience driving the transformation of African food systems as per the goals outlined in Dakar 2, overview policy frameworks about fertilizer and soil health, and incentive mechanisms to enhance agricultural productivity.

About Leadership for Agriculture (L4Ag):

Leadership for Agriculture (L4Ag) is an African ministerial-level peer-to-peer learning platform led by the African Development Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, its main financiers, with Emerge Centre for Innovations - Africa (ECI-Africa) as process facilitator. L4Ag's goal is to promote strategic engagements and policy actions among African ministers for agriculture and food security, livestock, economy, fisheries and finance, the private sector, and other stakeholders, to increase their commitments to investing in agriculture and food systems and boosting agricultural productivity. The key outcomes of this initiative are to increase funding for countries in the agriculture sector, and to design and execute efficient agriculture programs in African countries.

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