Drivers of Change and Innovation

Highlight:

The Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) has, for over a decade, been an authoritative reference point for evidence and insights that guide policy, investment, and practice in Africa’s agriculture sector.

It has provided the analytical base for CAADP biennial reviews and informed investment planning in several member states.

The shift from the Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) to the Africa Food Systems Report (AFSR) reflects a recognition that Africa’s future depends on an integrated system linking production, nutrition, trade, environment, governance, and markets to resilience.

This year’s report highlights the resilience and ingenuity of African farmers, agribusinesses, and institutions. It also makes clear that siloed solutions will not be enough.

To achieve food systems transformation, the report recommends building integrated approaches, underpinned by innovative financing models that leverage public, private, and blended capital, and draw on partnerships across governments, private sector, farmers’ organizations, youth, women, researchers, financiers, and development partners.

Chapter 5 focuses more specifically on Innovative Finance and investments for Agrifood Systems transformation. Key messages of this chapter are highlighted in the table below.

Resources

Drivers of Change and Innovation

Critical, emerging and enduring issues for food security and nutrition - A note by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security - August 2026

The present note gathers a range of issues identified by the HLPE-FSN Steering Committee, considering the three previous notes as well as the activities already conducted by CFS. Several rounds...

PUBLICATION | 03 Sep 2026

Food systems performance evaluated against targets and benchmarks reveals urgent gaps and a path to 2050

Highlights: To measure global, regional and national food systems progress, this study leveraged existing target-setting methods and developed a benchmarking approach. This resulted in two types of reference...

PUBLICATION | 20 May 2026

Making Sense of the Bioeconomy: A Critical Analysis of EU Policy Narratives and Responses

This study critically examines how EU bioeconomy policy narratives prior to 2025 construct the concept of bioeconomy and how the extended peer community makes sense of...

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Geographic coverage	Africa
Available from	04 Sep 2025
Related organisation(s)	AGRA - Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Knowledge service \| Metadata	Global Food and Nutrition Security \| Food crises and food and nutrition security Sustainable Food Systems \| Food systems transformation
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)	aid system policymaking agricultural production knowledge transfer and exchange

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Critical, emerging and enduring issues for food security and nutrition - A note by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security - August 2026

Food systems performance evaluated against targets and benchmarks reveals urgent gaps and a path to 2050

Making Sense of the Bioeconomy: A Critical Analysis of EU Policy Narratives and Responses

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