High Level Science & Partnership Forum

With Lessons from the FARA-led Biennial Science and Partnership for Agriculture Conference (SPAC), the High-Level Science & Partnership Forum will be a key side-convening of AASW9 and the FARA GA, providing a high-level platform for learning lessons, policy dialogue, and strategic partnership building around Africa’s evolving agrifood systems agenda. It will promote a structured, bottom-up approach to agenda setting by drawing on national and regional perspectives to identify pressing agricultural challenges, technological gaps and emerging priorities. The Forum will connect science, policy and practice, while fostering collaboration among research institutions, governments, development partners and the private sector to shape responsive research agendas and accelerate innovation for resilient, inclusive and sustainable agrifood systems in Africa.