 It's about transforming the economy through agriculture. How can we make this industry competitive? We have increased productivity. It's about human development. We see agriculture as the engine to build our industries. 70% of Africa's population is under 35. There's 10 million young Africans entering the job market every year. And we see agriculture as the single greatest potential source of inclusive growth and the ability to create employment on the African continent. Agriculture in Africa is largely subsistence. So the key challenge is making it a business. We all talk about agricultural transformation. Maybe we should start thinking about product transformation. How much product is we import from around the world into our continent that we can honestly grow in our continent? Africa was set up as an instrument to help accelerate private sector investments into African agriculture. That convening space between public, private, this is what makes rural Africa unique. Agriculture was looked at as a very risk activity in Africa. We now have a number of SMEs getting involved across the value chain in most of the cases. What is not available in Africa cheap or at reasonable cost is finance. The biggest problem all farmers face is a guaranteed market. So you can plan, you can grow. The farmers can access finance at lower interest rates. Basically what you see is that the company that works with the smallholders also starts to provide financial services and then they become the intermediary between a commercial bank and the smaller farmers. The international community, African leaders, stakeholders have accepted the fact that smallholder agriculture is here to stay. We wanted to use our resources to empower ourselves. We want to be the entrepreneur. We are ready. We just wanted the access. 860 million people going to bed hungry, simply not knowing if they wake up the next day. Just infesting in women here in Africa can take care of at least one third of that. We have local investors who are working with some of our members. They provide the input, provide the extension services. We're not going to solve the food security or the poverty alleviation goals we have if we don't transform life and business for smallholder farmers. Improves seed, fertilizes, better water management, mechanization to improve the productivity, the efficiency and the competitiveness of African agriculture. It's impressive to see the results, a lot of excitement, a lot of commitment, innovation and also a spirit of collaboration. For Africa it's transitions to Nepal and to Africa. It will increase its role and importance on the continent and it will be able to go to scale. I want to see an Africa that is very much integrated, that is really truly one market. Africa that is genuinely transformed.