Africa Has Technology and Innovation to Achieve Zero Hunger

Africa has the necessary partnerships and technologies to eradicate hunger, along with the natural resources and the policies required to tackle poverty and hunger - but these policies are not effectively implemented, African Development Bank President Akinwumi A. Adesina has said.

According to Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko of the African Union Commission, Africa needs to leverage its potential, including science, and be proactive rather than reactive to shocks, She urged the continent to take advantage of its youthful population and immense natural capital. "Let us unlock the potential we have... We should feed Africans and we should feed the world," Sacko said.

Efforts to ensure greater food securiity in Africa include vermicomposting or vermiculture, also known as worm composting, the process of having earthworms eat organic material, such as vegetable and fruit peels, and then break it down through digestion to produce high-quality fertiliser, and university student Emile Coetzee's award-winning idea of food consumption that can "reduce the gap of sustainability and poverty" in the near future.