Africas agri-food systems must be transformed to make healthy diets more affordable for Africans, according to a report launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC)
Agriculture
African Development Bank joins online to launch AGRF platform
African Development Bank participates in the launch of African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) platform linking Africa’s SMEs to investment opportunity
IFC, OCP to support sustainable food systems by improving agricultural value chain in Africa
OCP Group, the world’s largest phosphate mining and fertiliser group, and IFC have signed a milestone financing agreement to support OCP in expanding its value chain in Africa
AfDB extends grant to boost agricultural value chains in Mozambique
The African Development Bank (AfDB), with financing from the Italian Technical Cooperation Fund, has provided a US$1.1mn grant to help smaller agro-processing enterprises boost production and quality control
Understanding contributions of rising feed prices for dairy producers
Dairy producers around the world have seen an uptick in bought-in feed costs as the global market pulls through a pandemic, extraordinary weather events, logistic disruptions and growing competing markets for raw feed ingredients