When AGRA unveiled the Africa Food Systems Report 2025, it introduced the publication as a bold new road map for systemic transformation. On closer inspection, however, the report is less about transformation and more about entrenching the same model that has failed Africa for two decades — the Green Revolution model.
It is a strategy built on industrialization, corporate-led agribusiness, and financialization, not on the agroecology and food sovereignty that millions of African farmers and citizens are calling for.
To be fair, AGRA is right about one thing: Africa’s challenges cannot be solved in silos. Food systems are interconnected — from soil fertility and farm production to nutrition, trade, finance, and climate resilience. The report’s effort to broaden its lens beyond agriculture to food systems reflects this reality.
About the author
Bridget Mugambe
Bridget Mugambe, program coordinator at the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, is a social scientist who leads the agroecology and climate working group at AFSA, which represents more than 200 million farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, Indigenous peoples, faith groups, women’s movements, youth, and consumer associations across 50 countries.
