UNESCO World Food Systems Chair Annual Symposium: African Food Systems

What are the major challenges facing agriculture and food today? What are the foreseeable impacts of climate change? How are African cuisines transmitted? How do they project themselves outside the continent?

The Annual Symposium of the UNESCO World Food Chair will address these questions, focusing specifically on the African agrifood sector — innovation, variety, food sovereignty, and the ways in which the sector responds to demographic, economic, climatic and health trends.

Speakers include:

• Nicolas Bricas, food socioeconomist at CIRAD, holder of the UNESCO Chair;
• Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, African Union special envoy for food systems, former Prime Minister  the Republic of Niger;
• Guéladio Cissé, environmental epidemiologist at the Swiss Scientific Research Centre in Ivory Coast;
• Hugues Mbenda, chef, Libala/Kin restaurant (Marseille);
• Aïda Ben Ammar, manager, Ftartchi community catering company (Tunis);
• Laurence Tibère, food sociologist, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès/Institut de recherche pour le développement, Réunion;
• Justine Basse, co-found of Mom Koumba, an African food and drinks company;
• Sayouba Traoré, writer and former journalist ("Le coq chante" programme on RFI);
• Vérane Frédiani, author and photographer of "L’Afrique cuisine en France".