AfDB seeks G7’s support for Africa’s emergency food production plan – New Telegraph

African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina told the G7 ministerial conference over the weekend that the world should do more to tackle the growing global food insecurity from Russia’s war in Ukraine.

At the conference, which was held in Germany, governments, multilateral development banks, international and regional organizations, non-governmental organizations, civil societies and philanthropists demanded that the millions of metric tons of food trapped in Ukraine be released. war.

Addressing the conference by videoconferencing, Adicina called on Germany and other G7 countries to support the $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Plan jointly developed by AfDB and the African Union to help African countries avert an impending food crisis. requested. “While the African Development Bank has raised $1.3 billion out of the $1.5 billion needed for the African Emergency Food Production Plan, we have a financing gap of $200 million. So I would like to request that Germany and all G-7 countries in 200 Please help provide this million dollar balance,” the AfDB boss said.

Edicina stressed: “I raise my voice on behalf of the 1.3 billion people affected in Africa by the food crisis arising out of this war. However, for Africa, we must move beyond emergency food aid. We need to ramp up food production. We have the technology to feed Africa – Africa doesn’t need to have bowls in hand begging for food. Africa needs seeds in the ground to produce food for itself.” The African Emergency Food Production Facility will provide certified seeds to 20 million smallholder farmers.

The scheme will increase access to agricultural fertilizers and enable them to rapidly produce 38 million tonnes of food worth $12 billion. Ministers from African countries including South Africa, Mauritania, Tunisia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo highlighted the socioeconomic impact of climate change, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine.

He called for a quick effort to end the war. The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, issued a strong petition saying: “Millions of people on the poverty line have been crushed by this crisis – informal workers who are mainly women, small farmers, micro and small business owners, people with disabilities. “

Guterres called on “developed countries and international financial institutions to provide resources to help governments support and invest in their people, leaving no one behind. Developing countries that face loan defaults, They must have access to effective debt relief to keep their economies and their people thriving.”

In her opening speech, the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Berbock, said that as a result of the war and the disruption of food production in Ukraine, one of the world’s leading food baskets, there was an urgent need to provide humanitarian aid, especially to vulnerable groups. That said, in 2022, Germany will provide €2.8 billion to its humanitarian partners to support relief efforts.

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