Participants included senior researchers, policy makers, and NGO participants from West, East, and Southern Africa, with a few participants from North America and Europe. The Africans came from 19 different countries and represented 20 different organizations. Technologies and policies should be specific to each agro-ecological zone. Good governance, decentralization, and farmer empowerment are essential for agricultural transformation. Agricultural transformation requires better domestic resource mobilization.
Agricultural transformation requires greater coordination across development actions.
Promote broad-based economic growth and new job opportunities for the swelling labor force. Protect the environment. Transforming the food system has been a linchpin in the development strategy of almost every country that has achieved broad-based economic growth. Such a transformation requires agriculture to become increasingly integrated into the world economy. Farmers expand their use of science-based inputs developed off the farm and exchange more of their outputs with others.