𝐀𝐅𝐒𝐀 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫’𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Tolbert Thomas Jallah, Jr. @jallah_tolbert
Today, on World Food Day 2025, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) stands in unified voice with farmers, communities, Indigenous peoples, civil society, and allies across Africa to declare one urgent truth. The people of Africa are not dying because of a lack of food. They are dying because of lack of justice. Africa’s hunger is the direct result of disempowerment, land dispossession, climate breakdown, and policy decisions that serve markets over people.
At this very hour, millions of Africans, children, women, and men are facing life-threatening hunger, acute malnutrition, and the crushing weight of systemic poverty. In a continent that produces an abundance of food, natural wealth, and agricultural knowledge, this reality is a cruel contradiction. This is not a famine of nature, but the harvest of decades of failed policies, land grabs, extractive models, and the displacement of traditional food systems.
Read the full statment below 👇🏾
https://afsafrica.org/afsa-board-chairs-message-on-2025-world-food-day-celebration/
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