Civil society coalition calls for community-led agriculture, warns against factory farming

A conjugation of civilian nine organisations has urged the African Development Bank Group to put successful agroecological and clime resilient farming approaches alternatively than financing concern livestock models that thrust onshore conversion and degrades the ecosystem

They called for the prioritization of enactment for tiny holder farmers, pastoralists, women producers and indigenous and section communities.

The telephone comes arsenic leaders stitchery successful the Republic of Congo for the 2026 African Development Bank Annual Meetings.

The organisations nether the Stop Financing Factory Farming Coalition, successful a connection made disposable to newsmen on Thursday, harped connected the request for greater transparency and accountability connected finances shaping the nutrient systems crossed Africa,

 stressing that decisions reached astatine the gathering would signifier African agriculture, onshore usage and economies for decades.DAILY POST reports that AFDB’s flagship Feed Africa Strategy estimated that transforming African agriculture would necessitate betwixt US$315 cardinal and US$400 cardinal successful concern implicit 10 years. The Bank has committed US$24 cardinal to catalyze further nationalist and backstage concern done ample standard worth concatenation development, agro-industrialization and blended-finance mechanisms.

However, the conjugation warned that without stronger safeguards, transparency and information from affected communities, the financing could reinfo...