This African civil society statement is in response to the Open Consultation on the Recommendations of the Task Force Rural Africa, in their report “An Africa-Europe Agenda for Rural Transformation.”
African Development Bank: What Future Are We Financing?
As delegates gather at the Kintélé Conference Centre this week for the African Development Bank Group’s 2026 Annual Meetings, convened under the theme “Mobilising Africa’s Development Financing at Scale,” the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is pressing a sharper question on the Bank: not how much finance is mobilised, but who it serves — and whether the assumptions behind it hold up at all.
