What is preventing African countries from contextualising food sovereignty?

FOOD sovereignty should be the foundation of all efforts to transform African food systems towards sustainability.

However, the fact that African policymakers, academics and development agencies prefer to talk in terms of food systems transformation instead of food sovereignty suggests they are probably scared of the political dimension of food sovereignty.

Unfortunately, food systems transformation has been diluted to a point where it now means anything to anyone.

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