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Feeding the Continent, Wiring the Future: How Africa is Integrating Its Self-Sustainability
Feeding the Continent, Wiring the Future: How Africa is Integrating Its Self-Sustainability
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This episode explores how Africa is actively breaking its dependencies on imported food, foreign technology, and outdated models through bold regional... 23.10.2025, Sputnik Africa
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Feeding the Continent, Wiring the Future: How Africa is Integrating Its Self-Sustainability
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This episode explores how Africa is actively breaking its dependencies on imported food, foreign technology, and outdated models through bold regional initiatives like the African Union’s Specialized Technical Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment and Africa E-Mobility Week.
At the 6th Ordinary Session of the African Union’s Specialized Technical Committee in Ethiopia, the vision for a food-secure Africa was amplified. During the event, Sputnik Africa interacted with Stephen Tbeijuka Byantwale, Commissioner for Crop Production at Uganda's Ministry of Agriculture, who explained that the era of treating agriculture as an isolated sector is over. He noted that it’s time to view food production as an integrated value chain, from seed and soil to processing, trade, and consumption—a strategy designed to keep value and profits within African communities.Parallel to the agricultural transformation, a technological shift is underway for the continent’s transport sector. At the 2025 Africa E-Mobility Week, the premier event dedicated to accelerating the transition to sustainable electric mobility, bringing together policymakers, industry leaders, investors, and innovators, Sputnik Africa interacted with Professor Eric Ofosu Antwi, the regional coordinator for the West Africa Center of Excellence in Energy, who pointed out that Africa has the opportunity to be self-reliant in e-mobility and even export.This episode also features:Tune in to listen to the full conversation with our guests on the Pan African Frequency podcast, brought to you by Sputnik Africa.In addition to the website, you can also catch our episodes on Telegram.► You can also listen to our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, Pocket Casts, Afripods, and Podcast Addict► Check out all the episodes of Pan-African Frequency
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Feeding the Continent, Wiring the Future: How Africa is Integrating Its Self-Sustainability
This episode explores how Africa is actively breaking its dependencies on imported food, foreign technology, and outdated models through bold regional initiatives like the African Union’s Specialized Technical Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment and Africa E-Mobility Week.
At the 6th Ordinary Session of the African Union’s Specialized Technical Committee in Ethiopia, the vision for a food-secure Africa was amplified. During the event, Sputnik Africa interacted with Stephen Tbeijuka Byantwale, Commissioner for Crop Production at Uganda's Ministry of Agriculture, who explained that the era of treating agriculture as an isolated sector is over. He noted that it’s time to view food production as an integrated value chain, from seed and soil to processing, trade, and consumption—a strategy designed to keep value and profits within African communities.
“It is agreeable that now, after the Malabo Declaration, this meeting, the 6th STC-ARDWE [Specialized Technical Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment], is now taking us into transition into the Kampala Declaration that has now developed a strategy, another 10-year strategy, flagship. And here, we are changing the approach through an agro-food systems approach [...] we go into the value chain of aspects at the segment of value addition and agro-industrialization and agro-processing. And thereafter, we make sure that what is produced is of the right quality, and also, we have added value so that it can even move from one production area across the whole continent [...] and we ensure that Africa has food and also raw material for the factories and agro-processing facilities,” Byantwale highlighted.
Parallel to the agricultural transformation, a technological shift is underway for the continent’s transport sector. At the 2025 Africa E-Mobility Week, the premier event dedicated to accelerating the transition to sustainable electric mobility, bringing together policymakers, industry leaders, investors, and innovators, Sputnik Africa interacted with Professor Eric Ofosu Antwi, the regional coordinator for the West Africa Center of Excellence in Energy, who pointed out that Africa has the opportunity to be self-reliant in e-mobility and even export.
“Africa has the opportunity to be self-reliant in e-mobility and also even export. The reason is that a lot of the natural resources used for e-mobility are found in Africa. Talk about the manganese, talk about the cobalt, which are used for the batteries. It's in Africa. So, we don't have to mine these minerals, send the raw materials to Europe and China, and the rest, and they turn it into batteries and come and sell it to us [...] we must create the value chain for e-mobility within Africa,” the professor stated.
This episode also features:
Moses Valakati, the African Union's Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment
Iliiza Karangwa, company representative from Kabisa, a Rwandan e-mobility company
Tune in to listen to the full conversation with our guests on the
Pan African Frequency podcast, brought to you by Sputnik Africa.
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Telegram.► Check out all the episodes of Pan-African Frequency 
