H.E. Dessalegn Arrives in Tanzania for High-Profile Conversations on Food Systems Transformation
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania: July 9, 2021 – After a successful tour of West Africa, Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia and Board Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, H.E. Hailemariam Dessalegn, travels to Tanzania on Friday morning, where he will meet with H.E. President Samia Suluhu for discussions around her government’s food systems priorities.
Tanzania is the fifth consecutive country that H.E. Dessalegn is visiting after Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. Key to his visit is the mobilization of political leadership and private sector participation in promoting agribusiness as a way of promoting food security and increasing household income.
This is especially as Africa prepares for the September UN Food Systems Summit, where the world will take stock of the progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially the commitment to end hunger and poverty by 2030.
H.E. Dessalegn will also use the opportunity to invite H.E. President Suluhu to the 11th African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) summit, in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 7 – 10, 2021.
To complete his four day tour of Tanzania, the H.E. Dessalegn will engage AGRA’s staff and partners in reviewing the impact of their work in the country’s pursuit of an agricultural transformation.
AGRA is an African-led and Africa-based institution that puts smallholder farmers at the center of the continent’s growing economy by transforming agriculture from a solitary struggle to survive into farming as a business that thrives. Together with our partners, we catalyze and sustain an inclusive agricultural transformation to increase incomes and improve food security for 30 million farming households in 11 African countries by 2021.