Acknowledgements
This report has been jointly prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s (FAO) Regional Office for Africa (FAORAF), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and the African Union Commission (AUC) in close cooperation with FAO’s Statistics Division and the FAO Subregional Office for Eastern Africa (FAOSFE).
The report was produced under the overall leadership of Abebe Haile-Gabriel, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa, William Lugemwa, ECA Director, Private Sector Development and Finance Division, and Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, AUC Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment. Andre Croppenstedt (FAO), Medhat El-Helepi (ECA) and Simplice Nouala (AUC) led the report’s technical coordination. The FAO-AUC-ECA collaboration was supported and facilitated by Kafkas Caprazli (FAO), under the guidance of Chimimba David Phiri, FAO Subregional Coordinator for Eastern Africa and Representative to the AUC and ECA.
Máximo Torero Cullen and José Rosero Moncayo from FAO headquarters provided guidance in terms of structure and content of the report, Olivier Lavagne d'Ortigue provided support for data visualization, Anne Kepple, Juan Feng, Olivier Lavagne d’Ortigue, Hernán Muñoz, Filippo Gheri, Koffi Amegbeto, Ali Said, Kafkas Caprazli, Abdoulaye Mbaye and Patrice Talla Takoukam provided valuable comments and inputs.
Zoie Jones and Samuel Creppy, FAO, coordinated the publishing process.