Africa Sugar 2025: Main Conference Day 2Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Positioning Africa in the global sugar market

Strategies to compete with Brazil, Thailand, and India.

Unlocking Africa’s growth potential

Population growth as a driver for sugar consumption and export opportunities.

Exploring the export potential of African sugar, with a focus on the European, American, and emerging markets.

Strategies for African producers to leverage their unique products like specialty sugars.

Hear from international leaders like Brazil and Mauritius on innovations in sugar and ethanol production.

Explore transferable lessons for Africa, including policy frameworks, technology adoption, and market expansion.

Utilizing cassava as a sustainable feedstock for ethanol production, detailing the technological innovations, farming practices, and processing efficiencies that have enabled scalable ethanol cooking fuel solutions.

Empowering Farmers and Advancing Sustainability: the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of cassava-based ethanol production.

Examine Kenya's ethanol market, where local production covers some of the beverage sector's needs, and nearly all cooking fuel ethanol is imported.

Discuss strategies for increasing local production to meet projected growth, especially for household fuel transitioning away from charcoal.

Discuss the projected rise in demand for ethanol as a household fuel and its role in Kenya's transition away from traditional biomass.

Understand market requirements and investment opportunities needed to catalyze this shift effectively.