The Africa Food Systems Forum (AFSF) 2026 will bring together leaders from across Africa and beyond under the theme “Investing in Africa’s Agri-Food Systems: Nourishing Nations, Growing Jobs, Building Resilience.” The Forum will explore how investment, innovation, partnerships, and enabling policies can accelerate the transformation of Africa’s food systems.
Our Breakthrough Event
Pathways to Scale: Where Nutritious Climate-Smart Seed Systems, Institutional Demand, and Investment Converge for Sustainability
31 August 2026 | 16:30–18:30 CAT
MH 4 – Space A, Kigali Convention Centre
Register to attend: https://forms.gle/Kf45XtrWJNU9aWx17
Africa has proven solutions that can improve nutrition, create jobs, strengthen resilience, and contribute to food security. The challenge now is creating the conditions to take these solutions to scale.
At this breakthrough event, HPS and partners will bring together government, private sector, finance, research, and farmer representatives to explore how Africa can move beyond donor-driven pilots toward locally owned, market-driven food systems that deliver sustained impact at scale.
Event Moderator: Donald Mavindidze – Senior Program Officer, Gates Foundation
Keynote Speaker: Simon Winter – Vice President, Reimagining Humanitarian Nutrition Security at the Rockefeller Foundation Catalytic Capital
Speakers
Evelyn Lusenaka – Director of the Center of Excellence for Seed Systems Africa at AGRA
Ibitoye Oyewale – MD/CEO Premier Seeds Nigeria Ltd.
Nelson Munyaka – Zimbabwe Super Seeds
Yusuf Dollah – Country Manager, HarvestPlus Solutions, Nigeria
Peter Owoko – Policy Expert, The State Department of Agriculture, Kenya
Tanner Roark – Senior Technical Advisor at World Vision
Rewa Misra – Head of National Policy and Innovative Finance, HarvestPlus
Abebe Chekol – Deputy Director, Country Policy Advocacy and Communications, and Economic Opportunities, Ethiopia, Gates Foundation
Register to attend: https://forms.gle/Kf45XtrWJNU9aWx17
Our Other Engagements
Yusuf Dollah, Country Manager, Nigeria will join a panel of experts at the AGRA Center of Excellence for Seed Systems in Africa (CESSA) side event, “Investing in Seed Systems for Resilience, Nutrition and Jobs,”
📍 Kigali, Rwanda | AFSF 2026
📅 3 September 2026
Yusuf will contribute to the session on “Strategic Partnerships for Strengthening Market-Responsive Seed Systems,” sharing perspectives on how biofortified crop seed systems can catalyze private-sector investment, strengthen national seed systems, and contribute to more resilient, nutrition-sensitive agrifood systems.
