In a high-stake move to reshape the future of food security, Mrs. Massandje Toure-Litse, Commissioner of Economic Affairs and Agriculture of the ECOWAS Commission, officially launched the review of the ECOWAS Agriculture Policy (ECOWAP) from 2015 to 2025.
On the margins of SARA in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, on May 24, 2025, the official launch climaxed a side event on the ECOWAP with panelists from the African Union Commission, CORAF, ECOWAS Development Bank, ROPPA among others.
The Commissioner, at the end of the side event, officially launched the review of the policy in the bid to determine performance and propose a revised policy for 2026 to 2035, to be aligned with the Continental agricultural initiative via the Kampala Declaration. This was followed by a four-day technical meeting to develop the methodological guide, strategic orientation, and road-map for the review process that commences immediately after the four-day meeting and ends in June 2026 for endorsement by the Council of Ministers of Agriculture and Heads of States of the region.
