{"id":52621,"date":"2025-01-14T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/au-leaders-unveil-inaugural-africa-coffee-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:38:04","slug":"au-leaders-unveil-inaugural-africa-coffee-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/au-leaders-unveil-inaugural-africa-coffee-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"AU leaders unveil inaugural Africa Coffee Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

This maiden event, themed “Africa Renaissance: Chapter One Coffee,” is scheduled to take place in Ntungamo, Uganda, from October 10 to 12, 2025.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made during the AU Extraordinary Summit on the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), held in Kampala from January 9 to 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

The summit, which hosted over 2,000 delegates from more than 40 AU member states, concluded with the adoption of the Kampala Declaration. This declaration lays out a strategic roadmap to transform Africa\u2019s agricultural and food systems over the next decade.<\/p>\n

Key priorities include boosting agricultural production by 45% by 2035, reducing post-harvest losses by half, and securing $100 billion in investments across the agricultural value chain.<\/p>\n

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni emphasized the importance of commercializing agriculture to drive prosperity. He urged households to adopt land-efficient practices and focus on value addition to increase productivity.<\/p>\n

His remarks aligned with the CAADP\u2019s objective for member states to allocate at least 10% of their national budgets to agriculture as a means of combating hunger and reducing poverty.<\/p>\n

The Africa Coffee Festival aims to spotlight coffee\u2019s role as a catalyst for economic growth and regional collaboration. Coffee, a key export for many African nations, offers immense potential to boost trade, create jobs, and encourage value addition across the continent.<\/p>\n

The festival will bring together coffee producers, traders, and policymakers to explore opportunities for growth and innovation in the coffee sector.<\/p>\n

Discussions at the summit also addressed critical challenges in Africa\u2019s agricultural sector, including climate change, food insecurity, and the need for technological advancement.<\/p>\n

Leaders highlighted the necessity of collaborative efforts involving governments, the private sector, and civil society to build resilient and sustainable agrifood systems.<\/p>\n

The launch of the Africa Coffee Festival and the adoption of the Kampala Declaration signify the AU’s commitment to transforming Africa\u2019s agricultural landscape.<\/p>\n

By prioritizing innovation, investment, and sustainability, the AU seeks to position Africa as a global leader in agriculture while securing food security and economic prosperity for its people.<\/p>\n

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Heads of State from across the continent, led by Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, President of Angola and African Union (AU) First Vice Chairperson, have endorsed the inaugural Africa Coffee Festival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000080260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[3135],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-sam-k-nkurunziza-2"],"bylines":[{"id":3135,"name":"Sam K Nkurunziza","slug":"sam-k-nkurunziza-2","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":3135,"name":"Sam K Nkurunziza","slug":"sam-k-nkurunziza-2","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000080260,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-229.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-229.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-229.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-229.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-229.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-229.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000080260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52621"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52621"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}