Investing in agroecology will help Africa ensure sustainable food systems-experts
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By Benjamin Jumbe
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) has implored African governments to invest more in agroecology if the continent is to build sustainable food systems.
It comes at a time several African countries continue grappling with low production despite immense potential due to several factors including climate change.
The organization argues that as the continent seeks to protect its food sovereignty, promoting agroecological practices will not only ensure self-sufficiency, and local ownership but also environmental stewardship as the organizations program Coordinator Bridget Mugabe explains.
“Actually if you even look at the continental, common agricultural programme it’s all advancing, the industrial mode of agriculture so this speaks to increase in use of fertilizer, so we are advancing to policy change which also speaks to agroecology which has been tasted so policy change has to also come with budgets , ‘’ says Bridget Mugabe .
This has been during a high level journalist training on “African Agroecological Entrepreneurship and Territorial Markets for African Food Sovereignty that opened on July 21 2025, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
