The joint investment from three European DFIs will support food security while strengthening climate resilience across across sub-Saharan Africa. Agriculture remains core to many African economies, yet the sector faces persistent challenges. Norfund, Norway’s development finance institution (DFI), has made a joint $85m (€80m) investment into AgDevCo, an agribusiness investor specialising in supporting food systems ...

To address food security in the long term, the focus must shift from crisis response to investment in resilient, durable systems. Finding ways to facilitate lending to smallholders, who comprise the vast majority of African farmers, is key to unlocking potential and breaking the cycle of subsistence farming. Learn more about the Sustainable Development Impact ...

On September 18, USAID Administrator Samantha Power, Norwegian Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, and World Economic Forum President Børge Brende will host an event on financing Africa’s agricultural growth on the margins of the opening of the UN General Assembly. This event will focus on how donor governments, development finance institutions, African governments, ...

Norway has committed an additional $4.5 million to support the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) humanitarian activities in addressing the lingering crisis in Nigeria’s North-East. The FAO Representative in Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Fred Kafeero, stated during the signing of a memorandum of understanding ceremony between the ...