social impact Africa is home to approximately 780 million smallholder farmers, 70% of whom derive part of their income from farming and farming. According to UNICEF, soil in Africa is rich and foundations can produce bounties, but most farmers are struggling financially, consumers are wasting food, and children’s nutrition is poor on the continent. Ataxia ...

By Abdulkareem Mojeed The grant is to be used to develop self-fertilising crops for African farmers The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday announced that a Cambridge University-led project to develop self-fertilising crops for African farmers has been awarded a $35 million grant from its Agricultural Innovations project. In a statement issued by the ...

KIGALI, Rwanda Africa’s development partners committed $30 billion Friday to agricultural development and food sovereignty on the continent during the next five years. The announcement came at the closure of a continental food summit in Senegal’s capital, Dakar. The funding would be based on direct support in the delivery of agricultural and food inputs. The ...

African Development Bank Group plans to invest $10 billion over the next five years to boost Africa’s efforts to end hunger and become a primary food provider for itself and the rest of the world, Bank Group President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, announced on Wednesday at the Dakar 2 Africa Food Summit in Diamniadio, east of ...

WHO: The African Development Bank Group, Government of Senegal, the African Union Commission WHEN: 25-27 January 2023 WHERE: Dakar, Senegal Abdou Diouf International Conference Center (CICAD), Diamniadio “We call for a global coalition of efforts around Africa to unlock its immense agricultural potential to become a global destination for meeting rising food supply shortages in ...

Winners of a previous AgriPitch Competition, pictured with African Development Bank and competition partner officials, receive big checks to fund their businesses. Twenty-five youth-led agriculture sector companies from 14 African countries have advanced to the finalist round of the African Development Bank Group’s 2022 AgriPitch Competition. The Bank, in collaboration with the implementing lead Private ...

A range of projects have been started recently to improve food safety in Africa. Involved groups are the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the International Finance Corporation. The FAO has begun to assess and improve the food control system in Seychelles. A ...

Zikhona Buyeye, a junior researcher at the Agricultural Research Council’s Natural Resources and Engineering Division, explores the importance of vertical farming structures for small-scale vegetable production. A quick Internet search of the term ‘vertical farming’ produces images of seemingly futuristic buildings housing an abundance of luxuriant plant life. While these complex architectural designs and cutting-edge ...

African Union member states meeting in Abidjan have called on governments to speed up investment, co-ordination and implementation of programmes to improve nutrition and food security in Africa. African leaders gathered for a three-day meeting to draw attention to the 2022 African Union “Year of Nutrition”. The meeting ended with the signing of an Abidjan ...

2022 was a year of renewed confidence in the African Development Bank Group. Contributing countries mobilized and contributed $8.9 billion to replenish the African Development Fund under ADF-16. Furthermore, they acceded to the request of the Bank Group’s Senior Management to create a Special Climate Action Window under ADF-16. Japan, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the Swiss ...