The pandemic of Covid-19 has hit hard food value chains in Africa, through domestic and foreign trade effects on supply and demand. Its impact has been all the more important as this sector has long suffered from structural weaknesses that hamper its capacity to provide food security, expand, and create jobs. Hence the need to debate on which measures to take and which policies to implement in order to increase the resilience of food systems, in preparation for the shocks of different nature (economic, climatic, sanitary...) that may occur again in the future.