News & Events
- From: 03/10/2010
- To: 06/10/2010
- Location: Kampala, Uganda
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will participate in this year’s African AgriBusiness Forum in Kampala, Uganda, from 3 – 6 October 2010. Sponsored by several partners (AGRA, FAO, NOVUS, Stanbic Bank, IFDC, Rabobank, KPMG, Winrock, among others), the international platform will enable delegates to exchange views on best practices and contemporary issues pertaining to the sustainable development of Africa’s Agricultural and Agro Industrial Sectors.
Categories: Uganda, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
26/05/2010 - Sub-Saharan Africa is said to be the most vulnerable region to the effects of climate change and the frequency and intensity of extreme weather conditions. Africa should therefore prepare for this new challenge, in addition to the existing problems to continent has to cope with.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Climate Change, Food Production, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Environment
19/05/2010 - The private sector window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group received, on 19 May 2010, board approval for a USD 40 million equity investment in the African Agriculture Fund (AAF), a private-equity fund designed to respond to the food crisis that severely impacted the continent in 2008 in the wake of escalating food prices and staple export bans.
Categories: Private Sector Development, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
- From: 03/02/2010
- To: 04/02/2010
- Location: Hammamet, Tunisia
The AfDB, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and FAO are organizing a conference in Hammamet, Tunisia on the Strategy for Improving Food and Agricultural Statistics in Africa. The conference is being held from February 3-4, 2010, and was opened by Charles Leyeka Lufumpa, AfDB Director, Statistics Department.
Categories: Tunisia, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
- Date: 20/01/2010
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the World Food Programme (WFP) will organize, on 20 January 2010, a High Level Technical Meeting in Tunis to discuss past and on-going cooperation between the two organizations, as well as opportunities for consolidating partnership. “The global food and financial crises, the state of continental agriculture and food security, as well as the current strategic directions of the Bank and WFP have heightened the need for innovation in development cooperation between both institutions”, said Mr Aly Abou-Sabaa, AfDB Director for Agriculture and Agro-industry Department.
Categories: Tunisia, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
- Date: 16/11/2009
- Location: Rome, Italy
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jacques Diouf, proposed that this Summit should agree on key actions to tackle the food insecurity situation. As he said “the silent hunger crisis — affecting one sixth of all of humanity — poses a serious risk for world peace and security. We urgently need to forge a broad consensus on the total and rapid eradication of hunger in the world.”
Categories: Italy, Food Production
16/10/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group joins the international communicate to celebrate World Food Day. The AfDB fully supports World Food Day celebrations as a prime opportunity to increase public awareness of food problems on the African continent. This year’s theme “achieving food security in times of crisis" is a vivid reminder of the recent global food crisis. The day offers a unique opportunity to urgently raise awareness of the issues behind poverty and hunger, reflect on the rising tide of world hunger and take a fresh approach to agricultural and food security policy-making.
Categories: Food Production, Agriculture & Agro-industries
01/07/2009 - The 13th African Union Conference of Heads of State and Government is holding from June 29-July 3, 2009, in Sirte, Libya. The conference is being held on the theme: "Investing in Agriculture for Food Self-sufficiency".
Categories: Libya, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
- From: 24/06/2009
- To: 03/07/2009
- Location: Sirte, Libya
The theme of the 13th Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government is: “Investing in Agriculture for Economic Growth and Food Security”.
Categories: Libya, Food Production, Financial Crisis, Agriculture & Agro-industries
10/06/2009 - For the fifth time in a row, the World Food Programme (WFP), in partnership with Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Basic Education and Literacy and civil society organizations, on June 7, 2009, organized a solidarity walk against hunger in Ouagadougou.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Food Production, Poverty Reduction
