About GLF Africa 2022
GLF Africa 2022: How to build an equitable, resilient food future brought together over 8,500 participants from 122 countries and featured 182 leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth and government leaders, and 68 incredible partners to explore African solutions to the global food crisis caused by climate change, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine.
Across 31 plenaries, interactive sessions, launches, virtual tours, dialogues, performances, and a job fair, the digital conference explored ways to transform the future of food through healthy landscapes, equitable access to land, and shorter, greener value chains. Messages on social media rallied 26 million people around concrete ways for Africa to regain its food sovereignty.
Accelerating local leadership at scale
“No one way can fix it all in land restoration, we must apply different strategies that apply to different people and communities,” Kaluki Paul Mutuku, Kenya Innovation Action Network.“When you engage the youth, you are engaging the warriors,” Ann Njuki, International Land Coalition Kenya.
