➡Today, on World Food Day, we take time to appreciate millions of people from underprivileged communities who labour hard to ensure they are food secure, and to raise children in environments pummeled by challenges. ➡Also this being the International Year of The Woman Farmer, we remember the women across our continent who, tasked with primary care giving, work hard on barely enough land to ensure their families are well fed. ➡The official theme of the day: “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow", requiring our look into use of data, technology, and artificial intelligence to transform agrifood systems, combat global hunger, and make nutritious food affordable and sustainable, marries beautifully with a call we have had sustained here at ISAAA AfriCenter for ages: use of agricultural biotechnology to feed the world. ➡This day calls for a relook of policies, communication streams, and collaboration avenues among different players to ensure biotech crops, for example, which harbour beneficial characteristics such as drought tolerance, quick yielding and pest resistance, can be adopted by farmers across the continent without hassle. ➡We particularly give our flowers to women who are in pursuit of food security through use of tech an innovation in the continent, and for whom we have formed a community in the African Women for Biosciences (AWfB) (africenter.isaaa.org/awfb). ➡We equally appreciate the men who have battled hard to ensure women have a voice, once greatly suppressed by society. 🙏🏽 ➡Next year, in June, we shall assemble in Dakar, Senegal 🇸🇳 for the #ABBC2027 (abbcsymposium.org/) to agree on, inter alia, how researchers, having developed quite useful technologies, can build trust among societies for easier adoption. Our aim? To harness the tech we are building and effortlessly feed Africa. Happy International World Food Day!!!! @corteva @Cirad @ILRI @kalromkulima @COMESA_HQ @au_ibar @BiosafetyKenya @IowaStateU University @CropLifeKenya @CropLifeIntl @Bayer @2blades @PREZODE @ICGEBCapeTown