The African Development Bank (AfDB) and Purdue University in the United States have agreed to work together to make technologies available to millions of farmers in Africa. One of the projects in the partnership is a two-day conference to scale up agricultural technologies in developing...
The 2017 World Food Prize Laureate and President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has received the Order of the Griffin award, one of Purdue University’s highest honors. The Order of the Griffin is given to individuals whose commitment and service to the...
23-Oct-2017
Creating the next generation of hunger-fighters: Adesina caps World Food Prize week with speech to youth
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...
Today, I will be speaking about Africa’s pathway out of poverty. For millions of rural poor, their aspiration is that they will make it out of poverty, especially through their kids, and thereby laying the foundations of a march out of poverty for generations to come.
This is my story. My father...
The World Food Prize Foundation is partnering with the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, to establish the World Food Prize Africa Institute. This follows the awarding of the 2017 World Food Prize to Adesina on Thursday, October 26, in Des Moines, Iowa, where he...
20-Oct-2017
AfDB’s agricultural transformation strategy to guarantee 513 million tons of additional food production
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has developed a new initiative called the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) initiative – a knowledge- and innovation-based response to the recognized need to scaling up proven technologies across Africa. Already, 25 African countries...
20-Oct-2017
Adesina to set up fund for young farmers, agripreneurs with US $250,000 World Food Prize money
“I am proud as the Governor of Iowa State to proclaim Dr. Akinwumi Adesina as the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate.” With these words, the Governor of the State of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, officially named President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, as the 2017 World Food Prize...
20-Oct-2017
World Food Prize Laureate says recognition motivates him to accelerate Africa’s agricultural transformation
The World Food Prize is a great motivation which puts the wind behind the sails of what the African Development Bank is doing with its development priorities − the High 5s – especially Feed Africa, the President of the Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has said. He noted how the High 5s...
African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina has called for urgent action from stakeholders over the deepening crisis of global malnutrition. Adesina made the call as he joined key nutrition actors, private-sector representatives, policy-makers and thought leaders at the 2017 World...