Africa Has the Answers to Its Food Security Challenges. What It Needs Is the Architecture to Act on Them By Ismahane Elouafi Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -

Africa Has the Answers to Its Food Security Challenges. What It Needs Is the Architecture to Act on Them By Ismahane Elouafi As leaders gather in Kigali for the Africa Food Systems Forum, CGIAR’s Ismahane Elouafi argues that Africa must connect proven agricultural innovation with the finance, partnerships and delivery systems needed to achieve impact at scale. KIGALI, Rwanda, Sep 3 2026 (IPS) - As leaders gather in Kigali for the Africa Food Systems Forum, they face an urgent question: why do so many proven agricultural innovations still fail to reach the farmers and communities that need them most? https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/09/africa-has-the-answers-to-its-food-security-challenges-what-it-needs-is-the-architecture-to-act-on-them/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Internally_Displaced_in_Ukraine_Between_Hell_and_a_Future_That_Does_Not_Exist_Families_in_Desperate_ Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -