Ten African countries have pledged nearly US$9 million to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), increasing their contributions to support rural development, smallholder farmers and stronger food systems across the continent. Burundi, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe announced their commitments to IFAD’s fourteenth replenishment cycle, known as IFAD14, ...

Nigeria has taken another major step towards building a more resilient and productive agricultural sector with the launch of the Climate-Smart Agribusiness Partnership for Resilience (CSAPR), a new initiative designed to help farmers adapt to climate change while improving productivity and investment across agricultural value chains. The programme, launched through a partnership between the Federal ...

Nigeria has begun validating its first National Agricultural Land and Soil Management Policy (NALSMP), a landmark initiative aimed at improving soil health, increasing agricultural productivity and strengthening climate resilience through data-driven farming practices. The Federal Government has commenced stakeholder consultations to validate the National Agricultural Land and Soil Management Policy (NALSMP), a framework designed to ...

IFAD Partners With Government of Ghana and World Bank to Transform Agri-food Systems Through AgriConnect Compact. Accra, 4 June 2026. At today’s launch of the Ghana AgriConnect Compact, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) reaffirmed its commitment to partner with the Government of Ghana, the World Bank, and other development partners to accelerate the ...

IFAD and Italy’s BF S.p.A. sign Letter of Intent to scale regenerative farming, precision agriculture and local value creation across Africa under Italy’s Mattei Plan. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Italy’s agri-industrial group BF S.p.A. have formalised a Letter of Intent to explore joint programs that aim to strengthen sustainable, inclusive agricultural ...

Photo courtesy: @ILRI Nairobi, Kenya, October 16 2025: A landmark six-year programme to build a climate-resilient and low-emission dairy sector is now underway across East Africa. The Dairy Interventions for Mitigation and Adaptation (DaIMA) programme, led by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) with US$150 million in co-financing from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), represents ...

NEC Corporation, a prominent player in IT and network technology, has joined forces with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to bring advanced digital tools to small-scale farmers in Africa. Their collaboration, formalized through a letter of intent signed during the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), is designed to improve agricultural ...

Agriculture in Africa is at a crucial juncture. Following recent crises, countries are beginning to prioritize their food sovereignty, which depends on small-scale farmers for food security. Food systems account for the majority of jobs on the continent. And as its huge and talented youth population grows up, African agriculture has enormous potential to not ...