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The Gambia: African Development Bank approves supplemental $16 million to boost agriculture and food security

With the funding providing additional support for inputs, productivity is expected to rise, with rice yields increasing from 2.0 to 2.5 tonnes per hectare (t/ha) and maize harvests reaching 2.0 t/ha from 1.8

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org), granted an additional $16.08 million on March 4, to The Gambia to bolster its ongoing Agriculture and Food Security Project (https://apo-opa.co/3wDCO3w), launched in 2021. GASFP (Global Agriculture and Food Security Project) (https://apo-opa.co/4a0uBFc), a multilateral financing platform dedicated to enhancing the…

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    • The African Development Bank will support the construction of skills development infrastructure in the agricultural sector, build the capacities of agricultural trainers and support the establishment of agricultural cadastres to enable the Democratic Republic of the Congo to develop value chains in its rich agricultural sector
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Democratic Republic of Congo: African Development Bank to lend $117 million to support agricultural transformation

The financial support comes from the African Development Fund, the Bank Group's concessional lending window, and includes $78.6 million from the Transition Support Facility

Meeting in Abidjan on 14 February 2024, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a loan of $117.9 million to the Democratic Republic of Congo to implement the Project to Support Governance and Skills Development in support of the Agriculture Transformation Programme (PTA). The financial support…

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    • Osama Mahdi, Dep. Project Coordinator for South Sudan Urban Water Corporation, shows VP Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade and the team around the Bank-funded water project. Juba February 2024
    • On a three-day visit to South Sudan, AfDB Vice President Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade interacts with refugees at the Gendrassa camp fleeing conflict in neigbouring Sudan. February 2024
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African Development Bank to scale up financing to South Sudan in 2024 – Vice President Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade

The Bank's ongoing portfolio in South Sudan amounts to $160 million, with the top sectors being agriculture, skills and social development, and governance

The African Development Bank’s Vice President for Regional Development (www.AfDB.org), Integration and Business Delivery, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade has concluded a three-day visit to South Sudan. Akin-Olugbade met with high-level government officials including First Vice President, Riek Machar, and the ministers of Finance and National Planning, Interior, Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management,…

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    • Nearly 200 agricultural stakeholders attended the ceremony to launch the Emergency Project for Increasing Agricultural Production in Burkina Faso
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Burkina Faso government, African Development Bank launch project to bolster food security

Under its African Emergency Food Production Facility, the African Development Bank Group, has provided €38.4 million—nearly the entire project cost— for PURPA-BF

The government of Burkina Faso has officially launched an African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) supported project to bolster food security in the country against the impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Emergency Project for Increasing Agricultural Production in Burkina Faso (PURPA-BF) was launched on 6 February 2024 at the national Ministry…

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    • AfDB President Dr Akinwumi Adesina (third left) hosted Africa-based CGIAR Directors General at the Bank's HQ in Abidjan to discuss ways to strengthen food and agricultural productivity in Africa
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African Development Bank Group and research centres to transform African agriculture and improve food security

With 65% of global uncultivated arable land, the African Development Bank believes that the continent can feed itself and the rest of the world

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centres (CGIAR) committed on Thursday to strengthen their collaboration to increase food production and provide better nutrition for Africa's growing population. With 65% of global uncultivated arable land, the African Development Bank believes that the continent can…

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    • Agro-dealer Ribou Adama looks toward a new batch of fertilizers being delivered to his shop in San Pedro, Côte d'Ivoire
    • Improved access to fertilizers can help San Pedro’s cocoa plantation trees produce more beans - a key ingredient for chocolate and other products
    • A porter loads fertilizer bags from a warehouse in San Pedro, Côte d'Ivoire
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Sowing Seeds of Success: African Development Bank credit scheme boosts an agro-dealer cocoa farm fertilizer supply tenfold in Côte d'Ivoire

The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism, a special fund of the Bank, introduced a game-changing trade credit guarantee scheme in partnership with OCP, a leading global fertilizer supplier

Under a vast blue sky, the Atlantic Ocean waves embrace Côte d’Ivoire’s San Pedro city’s shores alongside a warm breeze from the Gulf of Guinea, signaling to Ivorian agro-dealer Ribou Adama that the day is special. Today, Adama will receive a truckload of significant stock for his family business, which…

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    • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) visited AfricaRice HQ in Abidjan, where he praised the African Development Bank Group’s work to improve Africa’s food security. He is welcomed by African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi Adesina (second left) and AfricaRice DG Baboucarr Manneh
    • Speaking to the press, Secretary Blinken said the Biden administration was convinced that there is tremendous potential in investing in the production of crops that are climate-resilient and highly nutritious
    • Bumper harvest: A local rice farmer (right) shows African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi Adesina rice varieties grown from climate-resilient seeds from the Bank’s TAAT initiative during a visit to AfricaRice’s headquarters in Abidjan
    • African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi Adesina shows US Secretary of State Antony Blinken a variety of rice grown from climate-resilient seeds from the Bank’s TAAT programme during a visit to AfricaRice’s HQ in Abidjan
    • L-R: African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi Adesina and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken listen attentively as a local rice farmer explains how climate-resilient seeds from the Bank’s TAAT programme have increased her yield, during a visit to AfricaRice’s HQ in Abidjan
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United States and African Development Bank forge stronger ties to boost food production

The United States will work with the African Development Bank to identify opportunities to partner with the US State Department’s Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) activities and develop an investment strategy

Secretary of State Blinken and Bank President Adesina Highlight Africa’s Efforts to Feed Itself and Rest of World; Welcome Increased Support and Investment in African Initiatives. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has praised the African Development Bank Group for the exceptional efforts it is undertaking to help Africa…

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African Development Bank and United Kingdom (UK) select Tunisian cereals project as prime climate finance transaction under landmark Room to Run Sovereign Programme

The project will benefit up to 250,000 cereal farmers in the country, boosting their food security and self-sufficiency

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and the United Kingdom have announced the selection of the Inclusive and Sustainable Development of the Cereal Sector Project in Tunisia, as a standard-setting project under the Room to Run Sovereign transaction (R2RS) (https://apo-opa.co/3U3D0CP).   Approved in July 2023, this cereal sector project in Tunisia will strengthen…

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    • Beneficiaries and government and Bank officials help harvest maize produced by the Tsindinzara cooperative
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Burundian farmers celebrate great yields thanks to African Development Bank support

To strengthen Burundi’s food security and nutrition, the African Development Bank has set up the Burundian Agriculture and Livestock Value Chains Sustainable Development Support Project and the Emergency Agricultural Production Project in Burundi

Burundian farmers told visiting government officials and African Development representatives that they are delighted with the year’s great yields thanks to the hybrid, climate-resilient seeds and multi -strand support that has been provided by the Bank. Several cooperative members expressed their satisfaction. Marie-Thérèse Nahabaganwa, chair of the Tsindinzara (Combating Hunger…

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    • The African Development Bank is providing significant financial support to Angola to strengthen agricultural policy and the business environment to improve food production and contribute to economic diversification
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Angola: African Development Bank approves $105-million loan to improve the productivity of smallholdings and reduce food imports

The programme is intended to strengthen agriculture policy and the business environment to improve food production and contribute to economic diversification

Meeting in Abidjan on 13 December 2023, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a loan of $105.19 million to Angola to implement the Agriculture Sector Reform Programme. The programme is intended to strengthen agriculture policy and the business environment to improve food production and…