The African Development Bank is ramping up the pace of its work in the agriculture sector. Its new strategy to transform African agriculture, approved in May 2016, aims to eradicate extreme poverty, hunger and malnutrition in Africa and to transform the continent into a net exporter of food...

This document is a summary of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) framework of the Livestock and Fish Farming Value Chain Development Project (PD-CVEP), particularly its construction activity of a 200-head/day modern pig slaughterhouse in Yaoundé, precisely at a location called...

This document is a summary of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Project to Construct a Modern Cattle Slaughterhouse in Bamenda-Alabukom. The detailed design of the modern slaughterhouse construction project will be provided by the developers of the said project, once...

This paper is the summary Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the “Construction of a Modern Cattle Slaughter-house in Douala-Bonendalé, Douala 4th District” component of the Livestock and Fishery Value Chains Development Project (PD-CVEP) In accordance with the African Development...

The African Development Bank, in collaboration with the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, held an innovation and entrepreneurship competition and an African Youth Agripreneur Forum, or AgriPitch, in Abidjan on April 9-13, 2018. The competition selected the most promising young innovators and...

The African Development Bank has signed two grant agreements to finance agri-business development projects through the Agriculture Fast Track Fund. Funded by the United States, Denmark, and Sweden, the Agriculture Fast Track Fund supports Africa-based agri-business SMEs by financing the...

The Drought Recovery and Climate Resilience Project is an integrated project to strengthen the capacity of the rural communities to address the inter-linked challenges of climate change, rural poverty, food insecurity and land degradation through the provision of water harvesting infrastructure,...

.more_iteration {display: none;}; Context Le Burkina est un pays sahélien fortement dépendant des activités agricoles et pastorales. L’agriculture, l’élevage et les forêts représentent respectivement 25 %, 12 % et 3 % du produit intérieur brut. Selon une étude prospective du secteur...

Pierre Guislain, vice-président de la Banque africaine de développement chargé du Secteur privé, de l’infrastructure et de l’industrialisation a présidé, du 7 au 9 mars à Abidjan, l’ouverture d’un atelier de réflexion et de partage d’expériences entre les acteurs du financement du développement en...