World Bank Vice President for Western and Central Africa, Ousmane Diagana and OCP Chairman Mostafa Terrab sign partnership agreement to unlock opportunities for African farmers to improve agricultural productivity and soil health in Benin, Guinee, Mali and Togo. Photo credit: World Bank The partnership will unlock opportunities for African farmers to improve agricultural productivity and ...

Reed Expo Africa is the organizer of Value Added Agriculture Expo West Africa which is scheduled to hold at Providence Events Centre, Accra, Ghana from 19th – 21st March for the 2024 edition. This event will bring together agricultural companies within the equipment and technology supporting the manufacturing industry to increase the production of the final product. ...

By Melody Chironda In a move to combat the escalating food crisis exacerbated by the relentless impacts of climate change, seventeen nations in West Africa and the Sahel signed the “Lomé Declaration on Fertilizers and Soil Health.” The agreement has been called a beacon of hope by some, as it looks to revolutionise the accessibility ...

A boy sits in the shade of a makeshift hut in northeastern Nigeria on June 20, 2016. Nigeria is suffering from food shortages as the United Nations warned some 50,000 children in Nigeria could starve to death that year.  (STEFAN HEUNIS/AFP via Getty Images) Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa face acute food ...

The contribution of solar energy in agricultural development in West Africa and the Sahel, it is around this theme that the FAO Subregional Office in West Africa has invited stakeholders and partners to its first thematic webinar to make its achievements visible. On December 14, 2022, more than 30 actors and partners were informed of ...

90+ exhibitors from 19 countries and official country pavilions from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa and Sri Lanka Following the huge success of agrofood West Africa 2019, its 7th edition will now take place in conjunction with the 7th edition of plastprintpack West Africa from 29 November to 01 December 2022 at the state-of-the-art ...

Agritech West Africa (AWA) AWA would be the finest exhibition and marketing platform for companies in the agriculture technology, agrochemicals, irrigation & systems, and all products related to agriculture and value addition, if they are targeting to connect partners and expand your business in West Africa. Agritech West Africa is expecting 120+ exhibitor this edition ...

UK government invests £450,000 in ECOWAS Rice Observatory to reduce dependency on imported rice, ease food insecurity, support trade, and create jobs. In Ghana, COVID-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have exacerbated the challenges of climate change, including energy, financial, and food security. The UK, Ghana, ECOWAS, and many other partners are working together to ...