The African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT), with partners, organized the debate on 26th February 2013 in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso to analyse hindering factors, identify on-going initiatives, explore contributions of stakeholders and pathways that could elevate Africa’s a food security status forever. This international policy debate on Whether Africa Can Feed Itself, attended by seventy participants including politicians, farmers, rural development practitioners, academia, and scientists, concluded that Africa can indeed and must feed itself.
The six panellists, including the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security of Burkina Faso, Honourable Mahama Zoungrana, summed it up that this is only possible by developing and implementing elaborate, adequate and comprehensive policies and programs that ensure sustainable growth in the agricultural sector. That there is need for a more urgent campaign to change the way farming is done in Africa; and the Green Revolution for Africa will be centred on Conservation Agriculture.