The Malabo Montpellier Panel at AKADEMIYA2063 concluded the ninth edition of the biannual Malabo Montpellier Forum to offer a roadmap of policy innovations for food systems transformation, building resilience and adapting to climate change
Agriculture
USAID boosts support to Zimbabwe via resilience-building
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$5.7mn contribution from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support people experiencing vulnerability to food insecurity across urban and rural areas
Coordinated policies across sectors necessary for transforming Africa’s agrifood systems
To make them more sustainable, the transformation of agrifood systems across Africa needs a “cross-sectoral, holistic, coherent and coordinated policy environment,” QU Dongyu, director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said at a high-level African Union (AU) event
ITFC signs agreement with SONACOS to finance 2021/22 groundnut season in Senegal
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) granted a US$44.88mn financing to Senegal National Groundnut Company (SONACOS) to help the Senegalese agriculture sector in post-Covid recovery
Access to Seeds Index shows seed companies moving to ‘greener pastures’
The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has launched the third iteration of the Access to Seeds Index, which shows that both global and regional seed companies are doing much better with availability and suitable crops for smallholder farmers