From science to scale: What the Alliance brought to the Africa Food Systems Forum
From PABRA's 30-year record to climate finance, school meals, regenerative agriculture and youth-led innovation, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT joined the Africa Food Systems Forum 2026 to connect scientific evidence, finance, policy and delivery with the goal of transforming food and land systems. This was embodied by the Africa launch of the Alliance's 2026-2030 Strategy and new partnerships designed to turn it into action.
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From science to scale: What the Alliance brought to the Africa Food Systems Forum
From PABRA's 30-year record to climate finance, school meals, regenerative agriculture and youth-led innovation, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT joined the Africa Food Systems Forum 2026 to connect scientific evidence, finance, policy and delivery with the goal of transforming food and land systems. This was embodied by the Africa launch of the Alliance's 2026-2030 Strategy and new partnerships designed to turn it into action.
Kigali offered a useful way to see what 'science to scale' looks like in practice. At the Africa Food Systems Forum 2026, held from 31 August to 5 September, governments, businesses, research institutions, farmers' organizations, youth networks and development partners gathered around a theme centred on investment: nourishing nations, growing jobs and building resilience. Rather than treating nutrition, climate, markets and innovation as separate tracks, the Alliance used them as connected parts of one question: what has to happen between a promising idea and impact at scale?
That question linked the week's two institutional milestones. PABRA's 30th anniversary showed what patient, African-led partnership can achieve over decades; the Africa launch of the Alliance's 2026-2030 Strategy set out how the organization intends to carry that lesson into its next chapter. Around them, Alliance scientists and partners examined the same pathway from different angles: evidence, demand, finance, policy, delivery and the institutions needed to hold those pieces together.