Professor Baudouin Michel, Director of ERAIFT and Rector of IFA-Yangambi, will be attending the 5th African Union-European Union Ministerial Conference on Agriculture 2023 at the FAO in Rome on Friday 30 June as an invited expert. Together with Professor Roger Ntoto of the University of Kinshasa and Ms Julie Tshilombo, Professor Baudouin Michel coordinated the drafting of the " Profile of the food system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (FAO-CIRAD funded by the EU https://www.fao.org/3/cb8157fr/cb8157fr.pdf )” and has been a member of the "Expert" for the "Task Force for Rural Africa" DG AGRI.