Mame Mbeugue Sow, from the World Food Forum Senegal National Chapter, has said that Africa’s indigenous agricultural knowledge is an asset for africa’s food sovereignty.
Speaking at the World Food Forum Africa Side Event during the WFF Flagship Programme in Rome, Ms Mame explained that agricultural knowledge preservation in the area of documentation and intentional protection of indigenous agricultural practices and knowledge is a key asset for Africa food sovereignty.
According to her, not only would the endemic knowledge documentation and preservation facilitate food sovereignty but also help in food policy design. “Support the documentation and protection of indigenous agricultural knowledge as a key asset for Africa’s food sovereignty and policy design.”
Giving recommendations for FAO Regional and Africa Chapters on
How to develop, implement and building youth-led movements to take charge, drive actions and making impacts, Ms. Mame highlighted on the need for native agricultural knowledge preservation and co-creation spaces. “As for recommendations for FAO Regional and Africa Chapters, I would suggest two priorities: Co-creation spaces and knowledge preservation.”
She explained that co-creation spaces create intergenerational innovation labs where farmers, youth innovators, and researchers work together on local climate-smart practices.
She emphasised that these two priorities will go a long way to speaheard the change for food security, food systems and designing policies for Africa.
