President Samia Suluhu Hassan (C) speaking during the Africa Green Revolution Forum at Julius Nyerere International Conference Centre in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on September 7, 2023. PHOTO | X via IKULU TANZANIA
This week, leaders and experts gathered in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital of Tanzania to discuss agricultural systems from seed production to harvesting to food processing. They agreed there were gaps in every step, with most countries relying on archaic technology and little investments in production chains.
The host, President Samia Suluhu Hassan told an audience on Thursday it was sort of shameful for 250 million Africans, out of the continent’s 1.3 billion to go hungry every day, today, when Africa holds 65 percent of the world’s arable land. “We have an urgent obligation to bring change on this issue,” she told the Africa Food Systems Forum 2023.
