Climate change, soil degradation, threats to pastoralism, decreasing fishing stocks, loss of biodiversity, extension of insecure areas, the cruel pandemic of the coronavirus… Critical situations affect all ecosystems in sub-Saharan Africa and threaten the food and nutrition of the populations. These long-term crises remind us of the importance of releasing the continent’s endogenous development potential. The reconquest of fundamental sovereignties – agricultural, pastoral, fisheries, food – is certainly the great African project for the decade, that of the invention of the new post-Covid socio-economy.
Pierre Jacquemot is a diplomat, essayist and academic, president of the Groupe Initiatives, lecturer at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, and former president of GRET. He has been based in Senegal, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Kenya, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
