Agricultural Innovation for African Sustainability and Resilience
Channel: Agrilinks
Date: 27/10/2021

World Food Prize 2021 Borlaug Dialogue, Side Event hosted by USAID and the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD), held on October 22nd, 2021.

Investments in agricultural research and development generate among the greatest impacts on agricultural productivity growth and poverty reduction per dollar spent, though most African governments invest less than 1% of agricultural GDP in agricultural research.

This virtual event is structured as a dialogue, building on earlier events from the UN Food Systems Summit and AGRF 2021, convening leaders to identify the priority actions for investments in agricultural research, development, and extension and an enabling policy environment. Presentations and discussion draw from recent evidence, including the BIFAD-commissioned study, Agricultural Productivity Growth, Resilience, and Economic Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for USAID, and look to build or expand upon recommendations put forward in the 2021 African Agricultural Status Report and a previous BIFAD co-hosted UN FSS Science Days event.