The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) announced Friday, the approval of three projects totaling USD 1.35 million to enhance the readiness of Cape Verde, Kenya and Swaziland to mobilize climate finance, necessary to achieve national sustainable development goals. The African continent...

On October 21, 2015, the African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB) Board of Executive Directors approved a US $33.3-million grant to set up a Post Ebola Recovery Social Investment Fund (PERSIF) intended to support the implementation of the National Post Ebola Recovery strategies of Guinea, Liberia...

Agricultural transformation is taking shape in some African countries, which have launched initiatives to boost the provision of essential services linked to the agriculture sector. This was the message shared during the opening day of a high-level agricultural summit dedicated to discussions about...

Farmers are effectively using mobile telephone technologies to eliminate middlemen distorting the market prices of farm produce and access better seeds, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina told delegates at the African agricultural transformation conference, which...

Le Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a décidé mercredi 21 octobre 2015 à Abidjan, d’allouer 325 millions de dollars à la banque angolaise Banco de Poupança e Credito (BPC), en appui au plan de développement de cet établissement bancaire, l’un des plus importants du pays, avec un...

The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Transition Support Department co-hosted a workshop with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on October 19, 2015. The event was part of a series of consultative workshops by the OECD, to refine the concept and dimensions of a...

Abdou Diouf International Conference Centre, Dakar, Senegal, 21 October, 2015 Good morning everyone! Welcome to the beautiful city of Dakar, to this high-level conference on transforming agriculture in Africa. Let me thank President Macky Sall for his outstanding leadership and support for...

The President of Senegal, Macky Sall, has invited the African states to Dakar to look at ways to develop more competitive, integrated agricultural networks. The Senegalese leader presided over the opening of the high-level conference on Africa’s agricultural transformation on Wednesday,...

by Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank There is an unbelievable contrast today in Africa: How can a continent with such an abundance of arable land, water and sunshine annually import food worth $35 billion? How can it be that the continent is not food secure? This must...