15-Oct-2017
Transforming agriculture in Africa
Oped published by Inter Press Service The African rural world is one I know well. I grew out of rural poverty myself and went to a rural school without electricity and lived in a village where we had to walk for kilometres to find water. We had to study after dark with candles or kerosene...
The African Development Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina, will deliver the Norman Borlaug Lecture as part of the World Food Prize events taking place from October 16-20, 2017 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The Norman Borlaug Lecture titled “Betting on Africa to Feed the World” will be held on World...
11-Oct-2017
Benin: AfDB supports inclusive growth through agricultural value chains and infrastructure development
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved the institution’s intervention strategy in Benin for the period 2017-2021.
The strategy supports the Government’s Program of Action (PAG 2016-2021) for the country’s economic and social development, anchored on two...
La République du Gabon a lancé en 2014, un nouveau programme phare intitulé Gabonaise des Réalisations Agricoles et des Initiatives des Nationaux Engagés (GRAINE), qui a pour objectif d'accélérer la diversification économique, d’accroître, à très court terme, la part de l'agriculture dans la...
In an effort to increase smallholder participation in commodity markets, the World Food Program (WFP) recently implemented five-year Purchase for Progress (P4P) pilot projects in 20 countries. The projects involved investing in physical and human capacities of Farmer Organizations (FOs) to...
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Akinwumi Adesina, arrived in Ouagadougou for a three-day official visit and was immediately welcomed by Burkina Faso's Head of State, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. During the meeting President Kaboré praised the...