January
Zero Hunger.
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
Sustainable Development Goal 2, Target 2.1
February
IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future.
Theme, World Intellectual Property Day 2022.
March
When Africa’s children are well-nourished and can grow, learn and earn their full potential, we will be able to unleash prosperity in the entire continent
Dr Akinwumi A Adesina. President, African Development Bank Group.
April
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) seeks to create a single market for goods, services, facilitated by movement of persons in order to deepen the economic integration of the African continent and in accordance with the Pan African Vision of “An integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa” enshrined in Agenda 2063.
Article 3 of the Agreement Establishing the AfCFTA.
May
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
Sustainable Development Goal 13, Target 13.1
June
State Parties to the Charter shall take measures to ensure the adequate provision of nutrition for all children in Africa.
Article 14, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.
July
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will be about re-organizing the geo-economic landscape of Africa. It is about shedding the inheritance of a divided continent and fragmented markets. It is about robust growth for job creation, modernization of Africa’s economy and relating with the global economy on a surer footing.
Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe.
August
Year of Nutrition.
Strengthening Resilience in Nutrition and Food Security on the African Continent: Strengthening Agro-Food Systems, Health and Social Protection Systems for the Acceleration of Human, Social and Economic Capital Development.
Theme, African Union 2022.
September
The general objective of the global health crisis of Covid-19 has greatly exposed the economic vulnerability of African countries, as well as the weaknesses of the health and food systems. The price to pay for keeping the virus at bay has been, in many African countries, at the expense of gains made in reducing malnutrition. Urgent action is needed to preserve the gains made, particularly among the poor and vulnerable. Investing in human capital is now more important than ever through designing the needed interventions, especially targeting the most vulnerable.
African Union.
October
Millions of people around the world cannot afford a healthy diet, putting them at high risk of food insecurity and malnutrition. But ending hunger isn’t only about supply. Enough food is produced today to feed everyone on the planet. The problem is access and availability of nutritious food, which is increasingly impeded by multiple challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts, climate change, inequality, rising prices and international tensions.
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. World Food Day 2022.
November
We are all interconnected and interdependent. Hunger and famine also precipitate large-scale migration, armed conflicts and political instability. For these reasons, it is in the interest of all countries to engage in international collaborations and cooperation to resolve the burgeoning food and biodiversity related challenges. The only way we can tackle our common vulnerabilities is by working together to build global systemic resilience. Once any community, country or region is left behind, it becomes a weak link in the chain of resilience.
Dr Kent Nnadozie. Secretary, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
December
Climate change is the existential crisis of our era, threatening people’s human rights, such as their rights to life and food. Food systems are also part of the problem, emitting globally approximately one third of the world’s greenhouse gases. With continued pollution, ecological destruction and deforestation and the removal of protective ecological barriers, around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades
Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
