This masterclass forms part of the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa lecture series, hosted by PLAAS.
Date: 16 October 2024
Time: 10:00 to 13:00 SAST
Venue: Zoom. Please register on this link: https://shorturl.at/YHKgs
The relationship between food systems and land governance in Africa is intricate and has significant impact on agricultural production (including cattle, fishing, vegetable growing, and forestry products), food security and sovereignty, and socio-economic development.
Effective management of food systems and land governance in Africa holds the key to resolving many of the continent’s challenges related to agriculture and food security/sovereignty. Addressing issues such as land tenure security, and promoting sustainable practices based on agroecological approaches can transform the agricultural landscape rapidly and sustainably.
This lecture explores the current state of food systems and land governance in Africa, identifying challenges, opportunities, and providing examples through the continent.
Professor Mamadou Goïta
Professor Goïta is a development socio-economist from Mali, a university teacher and researcher. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Research and Promotion of Alternatives in Development (IRPAD/Afrique), a ‘Think and Do Tank’ with scientific and academic status. He is a land specialist and a member of the regional coordinating committee of Coalition to Protect African Genetic Heritage (COPAGEN).
Before joining IRPAD, he worked for UNICEF in Mali, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Togo and Burkina Faso and several international NGOs, including Regional Director for West Africa and Africa Program Manager (ACORD) and OXFAM-Belgium (regional coordinator for West Africa based in Burkina Faso). He is active in social movements and works with farmer organisations and their networks in Africa. He is a board member of (CSO) Coalition on African Development Bank, Diobass, Ecology and Society (DES); Association Malienne pour la Sécurité et la Souveraineté Alimentaire (AMASSA); USC Canada, ETC Group, and Pan African Network in the Defense of Migrants’ Rights (PANiDMR).
He works on various issues and contributed to many economic, social and socio-economic studies, researches and evaluation processes in Africa and other continents. He drafted various public policies in Mali and contributed to other policy processes in other African countries. He teaches at different universities in Dakar (Senegal), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) in addition to Mali. He’s been Course Director for “Natural resources management and Africa Development ” at the Institute of Security Studies (ISS), as well as Governance Institute Director of CODESRIA in 2014. He was the HLPE/CFS on “Investing in smallholder Agriculture” (2013) team member and is a member of IPES-Food. He contributed to the NELGA short course, “The Political Economy on Land Governance in Africa”, in Accra.
Required reading
FAO and INRAE. 2020. Enabling sustainable food systems: Innovators’ handbook.
IPES-Food, 2023. Who’s Tipping the Scales? The growing influence of corporations on the governance of food systems, and how to counter it?
IPES-Food & ETC Group, 2021. A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045.
IPES-Food, 2024. Land Squeeze: What is driving unprecedented pressures on global farmland and what can be done to achieve equitable access to land?
IPES-Food, 2022. Another Perfect Storm?
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