Zero Hunger
Acknowledgements
The report has been developed by the Nutrition Section of the UNICEF Regional Office forSouth Asia in collaboration with eight UNICEF country offices in the region.
Executive summary
The 2024 Africa Sustainable Development Report(ASDR) reviews the status of the implementationof the two Agendas in Africa and offers policyrecommendations to facilitate their attainment.As in previous years, the 2024 report alignswith the theme and corresponding SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDGs) of the high-levelpolitical forum on sustainable development (HLPF)selected for any particular year. In this context, theSDGs under review by the 2024 HLPF focus onending poverty (Goal 1); eliminating hunger(Goal 2); combating climate change (Goal 13);promoting peaceful societies (Goal 16) andstrengthening global partnerships (Goal 17). EachSDG is analysed in relation to the correspondinggoal of the African Union Agenda 2063.
Preface by the Under-Secretary-General and special adviser on Africa
Food sovereignty in Africa is key to building resilience on the continent. Achieving food sovereignty would accelerate progress across the Sustainable Development Goals, lifting millions out of poverty, creating decent work, improving health and education outcomes, and raising living standards.
Acknowledgements
This report is a joint annual publication ofthe African Union Commission (AUC), AfricanDevelopment Bank (AfDB), United NationsDevelopment Programme-Regional Bureaufor Africa (UNDP-RBA) and the United NationsEconomic Commission for Africa (ECA).
Acknowledgements
The IDTFAA Compendium Report 2023 results from contributions provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Food Systems Coordination Hub, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the World Bank Group, and the World Health Organization, during the preparation and deliberations of the four IDTFAA Meetings held at the Director and Principals’ levels in 2023.
Background
As a result of its focus on energy as a key enabler to building forward better, one of the critical recommendations formulated by the IDTFAA working groups on people, planet, and prosperity is that access to energy is essential to developing Africa’s agri-food systems and building resilience. More specifically, energy access and transition should spur support to smallholder farmers, producers, small and medium enterprises, and pastoral and agro-pastoral populations to scale up innovative and alternative practices for agriculture productivity. Connecting energy and technology investments with the agri-food systems value chain will pave the way for integrated approaches between energy access and transition, agri-food systems, and building resilience in Africa.
Foreword by the Secretary-General
Halfway to the deadline of the Sustainable Development Goals, our world is falling behind. In Africa, progress in combating hunger is being reversed, aggravated by conflict, climate change, and the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.