PARM Art Challenge Exhibition
At the Tenth Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-10) in Ethiopia, PARM once again highlighted the vital contribution of small-scale farmers to the resiliency of our agri-food systems. The 2024 forum, themed “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063, and Eradicating Poverty in Times of Multiple Crises,” convened hundreds of delegates from across Africa in the heart of Addis Ababa.
Organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and other United Nations agencies, the event offered an ideal platform to display and celebrate African FOOD HEROES through the exhibition of the beautiful artworks portraying the faces of rural women and rural men that contribute to Zero Hunger (SDG2) at the knowledge fair set up for the occasion. The latter was inaugurated by the Deputy Executive Secretary of ECA, Antonio Pedro, who stressed the importance of the fair to showcasing United Nations achievements, for facilitating the cross-fertilization of knowledge products and enabling partnerships.
Among the numerous attendees of the Forum who came to admire the PARM Art exhibition, PARM has had the pleasure to welcome Claver Gatete, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA, and make him discover the original pictures of our Food Heroes and their respective transformation into artworks. The impactful and colourful representations of the small-scale farmers that contribute to the resiliency of our agrifood systems despite the risks the face every day, gained high interest among the visitors who happily stopped to know more about the PARM Art Challenge initiative and PARM’s results.
Years after the launch of the PARM Art Challenge, PARM remains committed to showcasing the invaluable contributions of small-scale farmers to global food security and agricultural growth.
Immerse yourself in the PARM Art Challenge exhibition at the ARFSD-10 👇
at IFAD Headquarters
IFAD staff and external visitors had a chance to admire the wonderful artworks that adorned the IFAD atrium for a week.
The exhibition took everyone through the original pictures and their respective transformation into artworks displayed side by side, as well as the challenge teaser video projected on the lobby’s big screen.
Visitors were also able to step by the stand set up for the occasion to get more information about the challenge and meet the PARM photographer, Carlos Tomas Lora Acosta whose original photos were transformed by the artists into artworks, as well as Dorcas Mayala Ntumba, the KM, Communications and Partnership Specialist of PARM and Anaïs Petitjean, the FARM-D and Digital Communication Analyst of PARM.
The exhibition aroused admiration and positive warm feedback from visitors and generated lively exchanges with the PARM team.
Food Heroes Dakartoff 2022 preview
Enjoy the Virtual Tour
of the exhibition during DAKARTOFF 2022
Enjoy the Virtual Tour of the exhibition during DAKARTOFF 2022
Art Challenge
We believe that
behind every farmer
there is a hero.
of rural women and men of Africa into #FoodHeroes!
The world’s 510 MILLION smallholder-farming families produce about 35% of our food and yet they are among the poorest people in the planet.
In occasion of the #WorldFoodDay and the International #RuralWomenDay, the Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) together with its partners want to celebrate rural women and men that everyday face many risks to produce the food we eat in our plates.
The PARM Art Challenge aims at raising awareness on the urgency to strengthen farmers‘resilience to adapt to risks in agriculture and build sustainable agri-food systems.
The Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) is the global partnership on agricultural risk management (ARM) for development. Established in 2013 as an outcome of G20 discussions the Platform has the mandate to promote sustainable agricultural growth, boost rural investment, reduce food insecurity, and improve resilience to climate and market shocks of poor rural households through a better management of risks.
Became our ART Hero
and become our Art Hero!
Find below the selection of portraits of rural women and men we met during our visits in Ethiopia, Niger, Uganda and Senegal.
Help us turn our farmers into food heroes! You have four weeks to pick 1 or more photos to participate in the challenge and transform them into digital art!
The more Food Heroes you create the more chances you have to be selected and have your artwork exhibited at the Dak’Art, la Biennale de Dakar in May 2022!
Meet Our JURY
of Western Africa Hub, IFAD
MAER
Biennale de Dakar
AICS Dakar
The Gorgui Dieng Foundation
and Founder of PARM Art Challenge
and Founder Maison Verv’eau
About Dak'Art
La Biennale de Dakar
our #foodheroes!
If you are not an artist but you would like to support our cause, download our social cards, share them on your social media using #parmartchallenge and tag us for a feature!
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In occasion of the #WorldFoodDay and the International #RuralWomenDay, the Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) together with its partners want to celebrate rural women and men that everyday face many risks to produce the food we eat in our plates.
