Adesina Leads Call for Political Will to End Hunger as Nairobi Hosts DialogueNEXT Summit

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 30 — Former African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina has challenged African governments to demonstrate stronger political will to end hunger, arguing that the continent’s biggest obstacle…..

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Former African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina urged African governments to show greater political will to end hunger during the World Food Prize Foundation’s DialogueNEXT summit in Nairobi, Kenya.

Adesina stated that Africa's primary obstacle to ending hunger is not a lack of technology or policies, but a deficit in political commitment, highlighting that nearly 320 million Africans suffer from hunger.
Key figures included Akinwumi Adesina, a 2017 World Food Prize Laureate, and Professor Ruth Oniang’o, founder of the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development.
Adesina pointed to Ethiopia's rapid transformation into a wheat self-sufficient nation as a successful example of decisive political leadership backed by science.

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