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Achieving Food Security in Africa: What Prospects Lie Ahead?

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  • Isabelle Tsakok

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Africa has strong prospects for achieving food security within a generation— provided its leadership effectively mobilizes domestic and foreign funds, drives strategic investments, and strengthens institutions that incentivize smallholders and other stakeholders to invest in resilient, high-productivity agriculture amid accelerating climate change. This is undoubtedly a tall order. However, the time is now to seize the golden opportunity of regional market integration through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as a catalyst for sustainable and inclusive agricultural transformation. Such a transformation can create powerful linkages across the economy, thereby fostering job-generating growth, particularly for youth, women and other marginalized groups. African leadership stands at a crossroads: harness the continent’s vast potential—including its human capital—or continue with business as usual, risking a devastating human toll. While the challenges are substantial, successful experiences of market integration elsewhere suggest that transforming agriculture and agrifood remains a “low hanging fruit.”

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  • Isabelle Tsakok, 2025. "Achieving Food Security in Africa: What Prospects Lie Ahead?," Research papers & Policy papers on Agriculture Markets, Policies and Food Security 2501, Policy Center for the New South.
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    1. World Bank, 2013. "Unlocking Africa's Agricultural Potential," World Bank Publications - Reports 16624, The World Bank Group.
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