The report «Food for Africa: On the Way to Food Sovereignty», will be presented during the International Conference on African countries food sovereignty ensuring in Addis Ababa, November 20-21, 2025.

The full version of the report is available HERE.

It is a comprehensive study that was prepared by experts of the HSE Center for African Studies under the general editorship of the Center’s Director, Andrey Maslov. It is an expanded version of the «Food to Africa: From Food Security to Food Sovereignty» chapter included in the expert analytical publication Africa 2025: Prospects and Challenges. The report will be presented at a panel session of the International Conference on African countries food sovereignty ensuring, organized by Rossotrudnichestvo with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on November 20-21, 2025.

The authors of the report are Vsevolod Sviridov, Deputy Director of the Centre for African Studies, and expert Anna Tayanovskaya. It was also edited and reviewed by Adeyemi Adewoye, Senior Special Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Nigeria; Gerald Makau Masila, Executive Director, Eastern Africa Grain Council, Kenya, and Kehali Jembere Tiruneh, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of Gondar, Ethiopia.

The report is a comprehensive study that attempts to outline the foundations of a new food policy for Africa and reflects the joint vision of Russian and African experts. It explores the multifaceted aspects of the path from food security to food sovereignty and has become a reflection of the Center’s long-running research program on this topic.

The report was prepared within the e-Governance Knowledge Sharing Program implemented by the HSE Centre for African Studies and supported by the Government of the Russian Federation and «Innopraktika» company. It pays attention to digitalization, an important factor in the modernization of agriculture in Africa. The report’s authors discuss digital solutions available to smallholder farmers, provide examples of successful digital agritech initiatives being implemented in African countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania, and examine projects to create digital databases on agricultural activities.