The latest Cadre Harmonisé food security analysis shows that more than 35 mn people (including 6.7 mn children) in the region are currently unable to meet their basic food and nutrition needs, which means that a failure to deliver urgent and long-lasting solutions to address food security and hunger will result in the number of hungry people in west and central Africa reaching an all-time high of 48 mn in 2023
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB’s) concessional lending window, has approved a grant US$6.4mn to Gambia to implement the Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending Establishment Project (GAMIRSAL)
To help support government and non-profit organisations on the continent address climate change, water supply and food security challenges, Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has collaborated with Microsoft on a sustainable agriculture development initiative in Africa
ForAfrika’s main strategy involves working with 20 mn Africans to ensure that by 2032, they would posess the necessary skills and tools they would need to support themselves
First National Choice has said it will build a US$6 million factory in Mozambique this year to process pineapple produced in the agricultural region of Muxungué
