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...

Over 750 delegates and high-level dignitaries, including African Heads of States, Ministers, and key stakeholders in the agricultural sector, are convening this week in Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital, Abidjan, for the 2017 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), Africa’s premier agriculture...

Agriculture is instrumental in Africa’s poverty: it must also be instrumental in its wealth. Only through agricultural regeneration can growth, diversification and job creation occur for African economies, for no region of the world has ever industrialised without the agricultural sector...

Today’s technological advances and innovations in agriculture should touch every aspects of women’s lives in order for them to have the desired impact on African societies. This was deliberated on Tuesday, September 5 at the 7th African Green Revolution Summit in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. In a...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has deepened agriculture with an initial investment of US $774 million in six countries in Africa to ignite economic growth and make agriculture an attractive investment. Chiji Ojukwu, Director of Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department at the AfDB, said...

The 2017 African Green Revolution Forum will be held from September 4-8 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and aims to stress the capacity of agriculture and agribusiness to drive inclusive and sustainable rural development in Africa. The Forum will spotlight the important role agriculture and...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Climate Investment Funds’ Forest Investment Program (CIF FIP) have released a report on how unlocking capital flows to foster forest sector development in Africa. The report builds on the results of the first African Forestry Investment...

Jennifer Blanke is the Vice-President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development at the African Development Bank (AfDB). In this interview, she speaks on the seventh African Green Revolution Forum, taking place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 4-8 September 2017; how to mitigate the impact...

Monday, August 28, 2017 was a special day for young entrepreneurs in Liberia. After Côte d’Ivoire in December 2016, the Bank is supporting the Government of Liberia to provide entrepreneurship training to young people in the agriculture value chain from 28th to 31st August 2017. The...