Beyond Trade: Building the India-Africa Agrifood Partnership
The article explores how the expansion of BRICS provides a strategic platform for India and Africa to deepen their agrifood partnership. It proposes a framework based on people, products, policy, and process to enhance food, nutrition, and livelihood security across the Global South.
Why it matters
Strengthening agricultural cooperation between India and Africa could significantly impact global food security and economic development in the Global South.
As BRICS expands its role in agriculture, a framework built on people, products, policy, and process could turn shared ambition into food, nutrition, and livelihood security for the Global South
The India-Africa relationship has reached an important inflexion point. Political commitment to South-South cooperation is well established, but the challenge now lies in translating that commitment into institutionalisation and implementation. The expansion of BRICS has created a timely institutional opportunity to deepen this partnership. With Egypt and Ethiopia now full members and India holding the BRICS Chairship through 2026, the grouping provides a broader platform to scale bilateral initiatives, promote joint research, mobilise investment and strengthen agrifood cooperation across the Global South. The central question is no longer whether India and Africa should work together, but how that partnership can deliver measurable outcomes for farmers, consumers and economic development.
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