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  • Publication | 2025

Pan-African and Regional Trade and Policy for the Food Systems Transition

Global Food and Nutrition Security

The links between trade and food security and nutrition are inherently complex yet undeniably affect the six dimensions of food security: availability, access, utilisation, stability, sustainability and agency (High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) (2020). Reforming regional and pan-African trade and policy for the agroecological transition must therefore shift from policies that promote uniformity under the influence of the industrial agriculture model and the green revolution to embrace food sovereignty and diversity (International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPESFood) 2016), from global supply chains to localisation and territorial markets (Abrego et al. 2020).