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Creating the next generation of hunger-fighters: Adesina caps World Food Prize week with speech to youth
23-Oct-2017 - One day after his historic pledge to use the World Food Prize money to finance African youth and entrepreneurship in agriculture, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina spoke directly to the students of the World Food Prize’s Global Youth Institute at the headquarters of DowDuPont in Des Moines, Iowa. Also in the audience were several other previous World Food Prize Laureates; former President of Ghana, John Mahama; as well as Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President of the World Food Prize Foundation.
Sénégal : Des progrès significatifs dans les infrastructures mais peut mieux faire
21-Oct-2017 - Le Sénégal a réalisé des progrès significatifs dans les infrastructures, précisément dans les domaines routiers et portuaires, mais il reste à faire. « De grands défis restent à relever au cours de la décennie, pour des dépenses annuelles estimées par l’Étude diagnostique des infrastructures nationales en Afrique (Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostics, AICD) à près de 2 milliards de dollars E.U par an, et dont plus de la moitié concerne le sous-secteur de l’énergie.
Un don de plus de 2 millions d’euros de la BAD à la CEEAC
19-Oct-2017 - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD), à travers la Facilité africaine de l’eau (FAE) et le Mécanisme de financement de la préparation de projets d’infrastructures du NEPAD (IPPF-NEPAD), deux fonds spéciaux multi-donateurs qu’elle héberge et administre, a approuvé le décaissement de 2 098 593 d’euros au profit de la Communauté économique d
Transforming agriculture in Africa
15-Oct-2017 - Oped published by Inter Press Service
African Development Bank releases second Trade Finance in Africa survey report, “Overcoming Challenges”
06-Oct-2017 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has released its second Trade Finance in Africa survey report: “Trade Finance in Africa: Overcoming Challenges”.
Mbembe makes a strong case for African integration through open borders
02-Oct-2017 - Renowned African historian, Joseph Achille Mbembe, has made a solid case for Africa’s integration through open borders that allow free movement of people on the continent. “History tells us that the first thing you do to incapacitate people is to restrict their ability to move. Mobility allowed the stretching of societies; was determinant to trade and to building African civilizations,” Mbembe said.
AfDB joins international community in supporting sustainable tourism development in Africa
27-Sep-2017 - To mark World Tourism Day on September 27, 2017, the African Development Bank has called for collaborative actions from all stakeholders for sustainable tourism development in Africa. The Bank recognizes that Africa’s tourism and travel industry can serve as an engine of progress for socioeconomic transformation.
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20-Sep-2017 - Increased awareness of the Continental Education Strategy for Africa 2016-2025 (CESA 16-25), Science Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA 2024), and the UNESCO Strategy for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) (2016-2021)
AfDB advocates linkage between development partners, policy-makers to build Africa’s food and cuisine value chain
19-Sep-2017 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is advocating closer linkages between development partners and policy-makers to enhance the informal sector’s contribution to building an African food and cuisine value chain. Like many other economic activities in Africa, large segments of the food value chain are mainly informal.
AfDB's e-wallet project in Togo – a rousing success with farmers
19-Sep-2017 - Agriculture, which employs 70% of Togo's workforce and contributes nearly 39% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is the mainstay of Togo’s economy. In the effort to modernise agriculture, the government received assistance from the African Development Bank (AfDB) which enabled the creation of an e-wallet project that has transformed the lives of many of the country's agricultural producers.Agriculture sector financiers resolute on cushioning farmers against climate change
19-Sep-2017 - Major agriculture sector financiers, U.N. agencies and research organizations have underscored the urgent need to cushion small-scale African farmers from the adverse effects of climate change.Experience is the best teacher in agribusiness, young experts say
19-Sep-2017 - When it comes to agribusiness, experience is the best teacher, according to young Africans who have successfully cut out profitable and society-changing business ventures in agriculture. During the African Green Revolution Forum Pre-Event on Youth Agriprenuers, a session on Monday titled “Youth Leveraging Agriculture Research, Technology and Innovation to Grow Agribusiness” brought together successful young entrepreneurs who chose the path of agriculture to discuss how they managed to go the extra distance.AGRF 2017 : réduire les pertes post-récoltes en Afrique, cet autre facteur qui nourrit la pauvreté
11-Sep-2017 - Si l’Afrique veut mettre fin à la faim d’ici à 2025, elle doit mettre un terme aux importantes pertes agricoles post-récoltes, qui représentent jusqu’à 30 % de sa production, ont martelé des experts, jeudi 7 septembre 2017, au quatrième jour de la 7e édition du Forum pour la révolution verte en Afrique (AGRF) en cours à Abidjan.
AfDB advocates strategies to deepen industrialization of cassava
11-Sep-2017 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is intensifying its financing for the production of crops with the highest potential for industrializing the African agriculture. Top on the list is cassava, which could be used to produce ethanol for industrial use and other frequently utilized home products, according to a Senior Advisor at the Bank.
Experts call for early-warning systems against malnutrition in Africa
11-Sep-2017 - Continental early-warning systems for nutrition are urgently need to curb cases of malnutrition, experts attending a nutrition-focused forum said on September 7, 2017. The nutrition experts recommended that the African Development Bank (AfDB) should develop these early-warning systems in partnership with organizations involved in food security initiatives.
The frontier for climate resilience begins with smallholder farmers
07-Sep-2017 - Tackling climate change in Africa will work effectively if efforts are first geared towards eliminating challenges faced by smallholder farmers across the continent, experts say. The problem of climate change and how it has affected the continent’s agriculture sector was one of the key topics at the 7th African Green Revolution Forum in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The week-long forum kicked off Monday, September 4 and runs until Friday, September 8.
Liberian President Johnson Sirleaf visits AfDB President
07-Sep-2017 - The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 paid a visit to the African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina at the Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Johnson Sirleaf and her team were received by President Adesina, Kwabena B. Oku-Afari, Executive Director for Liberia, Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Sudan, and other Senior Bank Officials. After signing the Bank’s ‘Golden Book’, Johnson Sirleaf and her delegation then met with the Bank President and top management.
AGRF 2017 : le Prix africain pour l’alimentation décerné à deux lauréates
06-Sep-2017 - Le Prix africain de l’alimentation a été décerné mercredi 6 septembre 2017, en marge du Forum pour la révolution verte africaine (AGRF), qui a ouvert ses portes lundi 4 septembre 2017 à Abidjan. Et ce prix est revenu à deux lauréates, la Kenyane Ruth Khasaya Oniang’o et la Malienne Maimouna Sidibé, qui se le sont vu remettre des mains du chef de l’État de Côte d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara.
AGRF 2017: Agricultural research in West and Central Africa still has a long way to go
06-Sep-2017 - Compared with their English-speaking peers on the continent, French-speaking researchers from West and Central Africa are lagging behind in terms of agricultural research. Experts at the 7th edition of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF 2017), which opened in Abidjan on Monday, September 4, highlighted the need for them to catch up.