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A trusted multi-stakeholder platform fostering collaborative dialogue, evidence-based policy formulation, and sustainable agricultural progress in Zambia.
To be the leading policy advisory organization in the formulation and development of agricultural sector policies in Zambia.
To provide quality policy advisory services in the development and implementation of agricultural policies through evidence-based research and stake holder consultation.
The foundational principles steering ACF's policy dialogues, research neutrality, and multi-stakeholder advocacy across Zambia.
Maintaining a neutral, objective, and independent platform for constructive dialogue between all public, private, and civil society agricultural stakeholders.
Fostering forward-looking farming solutions, modern technological adoption, and creative policy alternatives for sustainable food systems.
Upholding the highest standards of open stakeholder consultation, fiscal integrity, ethical conduct, and good institutional governance.
Ensuring meaningful participation and equitable representation for smallholders, women, youth, and vulnerable rural agricultural producers.
Delivering rigorous technical excellence, ethical conduct, and high-quality analysis in all research, dialogue, and advisory engagements.
Grounding all policy proposals and legislative recommendations in credible empirical research, verified field data, and market realities.
Cultivating a strong sense of ownership and active participation across all member caucuses, commodity associations, and sector partners.
ACF convening multi-sector stakeholders, government ministries, and smallholder farmer groups to deliberate on national food security and agrarian transformation.
The Agricultural Consultative Forum (ACF) was created out of a recognised need for a neutral, inclusive, and evidence-driven forum where all stakeholders in Zambia's agricultural sector could converge to discuss policy hurdles and build national consensus.
For decades, agricultural policy debates in Zambia were often fragmented across isolated public consultations, commercial farming demands, and donor programmes. ACF bridged this divide by institutionalising structured dialogues between the Ministry of Agriculture, research institutes, farmer federations, and agro-enterprises.
Today, ACF serves as a premier knowledge and advocacy hub, actively participating in parliamentary submissions, national agricultural investment plans, and grassroots smallholder empowerment programmes across Zambia.
ACF operates under four core pillars established to serve Zambia's agricultural constituents.
To facilitate and provide a Forum for continuous consultation among key stakeholders in the agricultural sector.
To provide informed advice in the formulation, updating, designing and operationalization of agricultural policies and programmes.
To provide a channel for information gathering, analysis, networking and sharing among stakeholders
Meet our Board of Directors, Management Team, and dedicated Secretariat Staff.