Across 34 African nations, a $1.5 billion initiative has quietly rewritten what smallholder farming can look like — not through charity, but through access. The African Development Bank's Emergency Food Production Facility, born from crisis, has reached 15 million farmers with seeds, fertilizer, and knowledge, producing measurable harvests where scarcity once prevailed. Yet those gathered in Kigali in September understood that feeding a continent sustainably demands more than inputs: it demands the credit systems, insurance markets, and trading infrastructure that transform a good harvest into