Climate-Resilient Agrifood Systems: Improving Productivity, Resilience and Sustainability
This sub-theme examines how African agrifood systems can more effectively respond to climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, water stress, pest outbreaks, and other shocks while continuing to increase productivity and enhance livelihoods. It invites contributions on climate-smart agriculture, agroecology, regenerative practices, resilient seeds and breeds, sustainable land and water management, soil health, weather and climate services, risk management, landscape restoration, ecosystem-based approaches, adaptation finance, and locally grounded resilience strategies that can be scaled.
The sub-theme recognises that resilience is not only about recovery from shocks, but also about the capacity of agrifood systems to anticipate, adapt, transform, and sustain performance under changing conditions. For FARA, this is central to its role in promoting science-driven solutions, knowledge exchange, continental learning, and multi-stakeholder collaboration. The sub-theme therefore encourages examples of how research, indigenous knowledge, extension, policy, investment, and partnerships can work together to deliver productivity, resilience, and environmental sustainability simultaneously.
This area will attract climate and agricultural scientists, farmers and pastoralists, policymakers, natural resource managers, regional bodies, development agencies, insurers, investors, youth, and community organisations. It closely aligns with the CAADP Strategy and Action Plan (2026–2035), which explicitly centres Africa’s future on resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, and supports Agenda 2063 and the SDGs by linking food security, climate action, ecosystem stewardship, and inclusive development. It also offers a natural platform for side events on adaptation, mitigation co-benefits, sustainable intensification, and resilience measurement.
