Transforming Africa’s vast agricultural resources into a climate-resilient, productive, and competitive system will require a deliberate policy and investment shift, according to a senior regional official. Speaking at a two-day forum on Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa, Daher Elmi, Director of Agriculture and Environment at the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), emphasized ...

Victims of the El-Nino rains wait for food donations from Kenya Red Cross Society in Garissa County, Kenya, on Dec. 19, 2023. (Photo by John Okoyo/Xinhua) Some 66.7 million people in the Greater Horn of Africa region are highly food insecure, according to a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...