Her Excellency Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko is the Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment at the African Union Commission. Prior to that, she was a Special Adviser to two Ministers in Angola: the Minister of Environment where she also served as Ambassador responsible for Climate Change, and the Minister of Agriculture, Ambassador Sacko oversaw Food Security, Eradication of Hunger and Poverty Reduction. Her Excellency was the Secretary General of the Interafrican Coffee Organisation in Cote d’Ivoire where she represented 25 African Coffee producing countries. She also worked with the Regional Economic Communities (RECS), namely, SADC, COMESA, ECOWAS and EAC, where she actively participated to address the challenges encountered by small scale farmers in Africa, ensuring that they remain a central focus in regional and national policy making for development.
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