Earlier this month, away from the shadows of the Group of Eight and distinctly apart from its power and profile, African nations quietly entered a pact to make history.
At a meeting of the African Union in Addis Ababa, African ministers made a pledge to end hunger on the continent by 2025. They agreed on a raft of measures, from national policies to dedicated funding, with a hope and promise of unleashing an agriculture revolution Africa has desperately waited for decades without much success.
Through the Addis declaration, the African nations have committed to opening their doors to import ideas from countries like Brazil, China and Vietnam which have successfully tackled hunger. The summit also highlighted the need to share and learn from the progress made within Africa — in countries like Ethiopia, Niger and Malawi, where a number of community-based interventions have shown great results in addressing hunger and malnutrition.