A summit on food security across Africa has heard calls for the continent to feed itself, rather than relying on aid or imports.
The current African Union chairman - Senegalese President Macky Sall - told the meeting in Dakar that Africa had huge potential that was not exploited.
The head of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, two-thirds of the world's uncultivated arable land is in Africa adding that Africa can and must feed itself.
Tens of millions of people in East Africa and the Sahel region face hunger because of drought, conflict and a rise in the cost of food and fuel.