The African farmer isn't holding a begging bowl

So as you go through that process, how does that create a platform to elevate Africa, not only as a food producer, but also as a knowledge hub, as a source of innovation for global food systems? Because I think there's a huge opportunity there.

Absolutely.

In fact, yesterday I was talking on this impact summit, the climate impact summit for the Financial Times.

And one of the points I was making was exactly that, that the fertilizer doesn't have to come from Oumouz.

We have our own sources that we can produce.

We can produce locally.

We're seeing some places in Mali and others producing this fertilizer.

We have some people in Kenya who are also producing this.

We need to develop...

Africa has got the innovation.

Africa has got the resources.

But we do need the capital.

We

do need the capital, and we do need the right policies to make sure that we're supporting our homegrown products, our organic fertilizer and others.

And so that's a big one going forward in terms of we are the source of innovations, not just on fertilizer.

The fertilizer is one example.

But we've been, as you know, supporting youth innovations.

My gosh, every year, the go-getters.

When you look at the women, the entrepreneurs of the year that we always give...

These are people who do amazing, very ingenious things.

But what we're not doing as well as a continent, I think, is then how are we supporting these people to really thrive? So we're getting them to a certain level, but we're not taking them.

Now we need that mechanism that makes them thrive and really produce.

Then you reduce also the dependence.

I think the street of Amoz taught us to be more self-sufficient.

But the ingenuity is there.