News & Events
16/05/2012 - An African Development Bank (AfDB) mission is currently in Khartoum, Sudan, working with Government authorities and other stakeholders to develop a program intended to build resilience to droughts and provide sustainable livelihoods in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHOA). The mission is headed by AfDB livestock specialist, Umar Lawal, together with Abdul B. Kamara, AfDB’s Resident Representative for Sudan, and various experts from the AfDB and from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Categories: Sudan, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
- From: 18/05/2012
- To: 19/05/2012
- Location: Camp David, Maryland
Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank, will take part in an extraordinary meeting of the world’s richest nations this week to discuss the critical issue of food security in Africa.
Categories: United States of America, Food Production
- Date: 15/02/2012
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
The high inflation rates that that have been plaguing the countries of East Africa recently could start to fall in 2012 and eventually reach single-digit level, a meeting organised by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Nairobi heard today.The seminar on ‘Inflation Dynamics in East Africa’ brought together the governors and high officials from the central banks of Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Nigeria to discuss the bout of high inflation recently suffered in the region.
Categories: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Financial Crisis, Food Production
08/02/2012 - “Enormous resource requirements are needed by Sub-Saharan Africa’s agriculture sector… The African Development Bank needs to continue to closely partner with others to effectively and sustainably build capacities within Horn of Africa countries,” - Kanu.
Categories: Tunisia, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
08/02/2012 - Food security challenges in the horn of Africa, regional drought resilience building programme, climate change and green development, were among key issues discussed by experts in the African Development Bank’s Agriculture and Agro-industry Department (OSAN) during their recent meeting in Tunis.
Categories: Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
05/12/2011 - Climate change affects agriculture in Africa more than in the rest of the world and that can cause hunger in various countries there. But it is possible for governments to fight the problem, delegates at the climate change conference, COP 17, in Durban heard.
Categories: South Africa, Mali, Climate Change, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production, Environment
29/11/2011 - Over just one year, a series of events – ranging from the Arab Spring to the European debt crisis and growing food insecurity, particularly in the Horn of Africa – has focused attention on the fragility of the global economic system.
Categories: Financial Crisis, Food Production
- From: 27/10/2011
- To: 28/10/2011
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
The annual partnership meeting on agriculture and food security in Africa between the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) took place in Tunis on 27-28 October 2011.
Categories: Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
28/10/2011 - La croissance démographique a une influence avérée sur la disponibilité alimentaire en Afrique. Cet impact peut être d’autant plus préjudiciable que la population de l’Afrique va atteindre le chiffre de 2 milliards d’individus en 2050. C’est ce qu’a souligné, le 28 octobre à Addis-Abeba, Kevin Thomas, maître de conférence à l’Université de Pennsylvanie.
Categories: Ethiopia, Human and Social Development, Climate Change, Food Production, Environment
28/10/2011 - Vulnerable households cope with difficult times in ways that have adverse consequences on human development, according to a study presented at the “Household Wellbeing and Food Prices” session of the sixth African Economic Conference, which ended in Addis Ababa on Friday.
Categories: Ethiopia, Food Production, Climate Change, Environment
