The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted a US$80mn loan to Congo to set up agricultural value chains to benefit more than 350,000 people
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Celebrating South-South cooperation, partnerships to address food security and poverty
Through South-South cooperation, countries across the global South are successfully exchanging technical expertise and building innovative partnerships that, if strengthened, can continue to play a crucial role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
ECA, AUC and AfDB launch agriculture and food security joint thematic working group in Abidjan
The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), have launched the agriculture and food security joint Thematic Working Group (TWG) on the margins of the conference on Land Policy in Africa in Abidjan, Côte dIvoire
Origin of deadly wheat pathogen discovered by academic researchers
The origin of a deadly wheat pathogen which threatens a vital global food source has been identified by an international team of academic researchers including two professors from the University of the Free State in South Africa
Collaboration to improve Tanzanian rice production
Real IPM, Biobest’s subsidiary in Kenya, has announced to be one of three collaborators in a project to improve rice production in Tanzania by developing innovative microbe-based methods to manage rice blast