Beyond tools, toward transformation: ACAT 2025 presses for collaborations
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24.06.25
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Over 800 delegates gathered in Kigali Rwanda for ACAT 2025 to explore agri-tech solutions for Africa. They emphasized collaboration, farmer-centered innovations, and partnerships to drive sustainable agriculture and food security across the continent.
Africa – home to 1.5 billion people – is approaching a critical threshold. Climatic shocks, soaring population growth, land degradation, and deep-rooted inequalities are converging to strain already fragile food systems. In eastern and southern Africa alone, food demand could surge up to ninefold by 2050, while climate change threatens to push up to 30 million people into hunger. But, when challenges grow, so too does the call for innovation.
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