African Green Revolution Forum 2019 – New roadmaps to take African agri forward

Ghana is all set to host the African Green Revolution Forum 2019 in Accra between September 3 and 6. This year's theme of this globally-acclaimed forum is "Grow Digital: Leveraging Digital Transformation to Drive Sustainable Food Systems in Africa."

The African Green Revolution Forum 2019 will consist of four-days conferences, events, awards, discussions, debates, high-level meetings including exhibition obviously focussing on this year's theme (mentioned above).

The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) is an ideal podium for the global and African leaders to develop actionable plans that will move African agriculture forward. AGRF is considered as the planet's one of the most important and impactful forums for African agriculture. It gathers the stakeholders in the agricultural landscape to take practical actions and share lessons that will move African agriculture forward.

On the first day, September 3 of AGRF in Accra, Professor Thom Jayne of Michigan State University will be representing the forum. According to Future Agricultures, he will be moderating and presenting in a session "Megatrends Driving Agrifood System Transformation in Africa: The Evolving Role of Locally-led Policy Analysis Capacity". A presentation on "The Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in Africa" will be given by Professor Adebayo Aromolaran of Adekunle Ajasin University. It will be mainly based on Agricultural Policy Research in Africa's (APRA) research on medium-scale farms in Nigeria.

Here's the list of eminent speakers of AGRF 2019 – Tony Blair, founder of Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Dr. Kamau-Rutenberg, Director of African Women in Agricultural Research and Development; Simon Winter, Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation; Reeta Roy, President and CEO, Mastercard Foundation; Ken Lohento, Senior Programme Coordinator, Technical Centre for Agricultural & Rural Cooperation; Dr. Jemimah Njuki, Senior Program Specialist, International Development Research Centre; Dr. Abebe Haile-Gabriel, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa, Food and Agriculture Organization, Stefan Schmitz, Deputy Director-General and Commissioner for the "One World – No Hunger", Maura Barry, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Food Security, United States Agency for International Development; Naoko Ishii, CEO & Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility; Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO, The African Union Development Agency and former Prime Minister of Niger; Svein Tore Holsether, President and CEO, Yara International; Michael Hailu, Michael Hailu, Director, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation; Sara Mbago-Bhunu, Regional Director-East and Southern Africa, International Fund for Agriculture Development to name a few. Here you can check the full list of other speakers at African Green Revolution Forum's official website.

Among several objectives, one of the main intentions of this annual AGRF is to explore the evolving capacity development challenges and accordingly evolve with the ways of responding to these challenges within the context of rapid agri-food systems transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. The outcomes of the forum will severely help all the African governments and other stakeholders in capacity building.

The progress of African countries has severely been observed in the last 20 years and the rapid agricultural transformation with the incursion of digital innovations has notably helped economic growth and modernization. Thus, sustainable agriculture and its growth will always continue to drive Africa's progress. AGRF is one such vital podium to discover new tracks on which the continent will further flourish its agricultural sector.

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