President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has called for Japanese investment in the agribusiness sector in Africa.
Adesina, who made the call at the 2018 Tokyo Nobel Prize Dialogue on The Future of Food in Yokohama, commended the Japanese Government for its support to the Bank’s several initiatives and its multi-billion dollar economic transformation partnership with Africa.
He said that Japanese support had been felt in the private sector, energy and infrastructure development.
He further stressed the importance of the Bank’s Transformation of the African Savannah Initiative (TASI) and Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) programme towards scaling up agricultural technologies for millions of farmers and reducing Africa’s widening and expensive net food trade deficit.
Adesina highlighted the importance of good nutrition, especially for young mothers and babies.
