Abhatoo - Centre Nationale de Documentation

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Number 2 (UN SDG 2) aims to eliminate hunger through the promotion of more resilient and productive food systems. In this context, the provision of effective Capacity Development (CD) for agricultural innovation is implicitly and explicitly emphasized in several targets (SDG 2.3, 2.4, 2A). Our stakeholder surveys carried out in four African countries on CD for agricultural innovation reveal different perception patterns toward the role of the domestic public sector and foreign aid initiatives in the provision of effective CD for agricultural innovation. Overall, the respondents of the survey tend to agree that inclusive, productive and sustainable food systems can only be achieved through more private sector involvement in efforts to integrate small-scale farmers into formal agricultural value chains. As such, the empirical findings are very much in line with Africa-owned agricultural initiatives as well as the call of the UN Food Systems Summit in fall 2021 for a global partnership designed to enable a profound change of the international food and agriculture system.