On 16 December, a US$50mn International Development Association (IDA) additional financing was approved under the second phase of the West Africa regional Food Systems Resilience Programme (FSRP-2)
Agriculture
SAAI and TLU SA enhance collaboration to protect farmers’ interests
On 8 December, the Southern African Agri Initiative (SAAI) and the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa (TLU SA) signed an agreement to broaden, deepen and strengthen cooperation between these two organisations
AfDB contributes nearly US$74mn to boost wheat production in Sudan
On 9 December, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) in Abidjan approved US$73.81mn to finance the Sudan Emergency Wheat Production Project under the Bank’s African Emergency Food Production Facility
ECOWAS and Spain sign US$1.5mn MoU to support gender, agriculture and sustainable energy in West Africa
On 6 December, Omar Alieu Touray, president of the ECOWAS commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth US$1.589mn with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain on support to ECOWAS Specialised Agencies, namely: the ECOWAS Centre for Gender Development (ECDG), the ECOWAS Agency for Agriculture and Food (RAAF) and the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) in Abuja, Nigeria
FAO supports national plan to lower Covid-19 impact in Benin
Faced with the effects of the Covid-19 crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) designed and implemented a project under the Technical Cooperation Program (TCP) with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries