Description
Cotton production has been a mainstay of West Africa’s agricultural economies since colonialism. Originally grown to supply France’s demand, it still dominates several semi-arid francophone West African countries, notably in the “Cotton 4”—Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, and Chad.
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.
A new Barefoot Guide from the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) documents a growing continental movement — from community markets and school gardens to national parliaments and global policy forums.
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.
A new Barefoot Guide from the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) documents a growing continental movement — from community markets and school gardens to national parliaments and global policy forums.
