Discussion with Partners in Marrackech, Morocco, March 2019
Co-convened by the OCP Group African Development Bank, World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the consultative forum is organised to provide a platform for dialogue between the African tertiary education sector (TVET, HEST, R&D) and the global and African development partners to chart a way forward for transforming African agricultural higher agricultural education, science, technology and innovation (AHESTI). It is proposed to engage global and African partners with passion for Africa’s transformation through skilled human capital, science, technology and innovation with inclusive agricultural growth. Inclusive agricultural growth relates to mitigating the effects of commercialization if agriculture and related large corporate takeovers of farming and value chains and the food system as a whole, from production to retail, by ensuring smallholder farmers and poor rural residents are included in the benefit streams. As such, inclusion requires that agricultural growth helps existing farmers, traders, and others in the value chain to mitigate risk, to become more profitable and to scale up what they are doing. Thus, inclusion cannot be only at the level of primary production rather it includes family farmers being able to access markets, by aggregating their outputs, and selling into value chains that are able to efficiently get produce to the growing numbers of urban consumers. Inclusive growth provides for reducing inequalities in ownership and income, and offers the opportunity for incomes from agriculture to be reinvested to stimulate further growth in farming, in the rural non-farm economy and, through rural-urban linkages, into the urban food economy, to feed Africa’s growing and urbanizing population.
Documents on consultation forums of RUFORUM with Partners
Concept Note on Building Africa’s agricultural science, technology and innovation capacity for accelerated, sustainable and inclusive development [Download ]
The presentatons
1. RUFORUM OCP/UM6P Partnership to contribute to Africa's Agricultural Transformation [Download]
2. Accelerating youth innovativeness, entrepreneurship and financial inclusion for Africa’s development [Download]
3. Twenty years of investment in African higher education [Download]
4. Building Africa’s Science and Technology Capacity for Economic Growth [Download]
5. Vision 2030: African Universities’ Agenda for Agricultural Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (AHESTI) [Download]
6. YOUNG AFRICA WORKS Creating Opportunities for All to Learn and Prosper [Download]
7. Food Planet Health : The EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems [Download]
8.Strengthening Use of Digital Technologies for Agricultural Transformation in Africa: African Digital Agriculture Program (AfriDAP) [Download]
9. African Digital Agriculture Programme (AfriDAP) Data Science for Agriculture [ Download ]
10. Digital Agriculture and Disruptive Technology a Fundamental Shift Agriculture Global Practice-World Bank [ Download ]
11. Digital Learning and Sharing Technologies for Agriculture [Download]
Summaries from Morocco Consultative Forum 2019
Day 1 Summary : Building Africa’s agricultural science, technology and innovation capacity for accelerated, sustainable and inclusive development [Download]
Day 2 Summary : Higher Education in Africa Partners Consultative Forum [ Download ]
Day 3 Summary : Higher Education in Africa Partners Consultative Forum [ Download ]
