A global event exploring actions to boost funding for food production, improve food and nutrition security and bolster equity and justice in food systems.
Date: Saturday-Sunday, 5-6 February 2022
Click to read the press release on '2022: African Year of Nutrition' that summarized the event
Last weekend, during their General Assembly, the African Union (AU) declared 2022 the African Year of Nutrition. This attention is very much welcome as it presents an opportunity to link the African objectives of ending hunger and of promoting the sustainable transformation of food systems on the continent.
Despite worsening levels of hunger and malnutrition, progress towards those objectives has been slowing down. It is clear by now that the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the impact of pre-existing drivers of food insecurity, such as climate change and violent conflict.
By using the energy around the Year of Nutrition, the food systems approach can strengthen the effectiveness of AU’s flagship 'Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP).' It helps create a common, big picture of the drivers of malnutrition, as well as environmental, social and economic challenges and trade-offs of African food systems.
As part of our commitments to explore solutions that connect social, economic and environmental challenges afflicting aquatic food systems, WorldFish supported the goals of the African Year of Nutrition by continuing to showcase our research and innovation in Egypt, Zambia, Malawi, Nigeria in relation to the WorldFish's '2030 Research and Innovation Strategy' and CGIAR's initiative in 'Resilient Aquatic Foods for Healthy People and Planet.'
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