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    • Justine Gantekpin’s thriving market garden in Djeffa, expanded thanks to the support of project
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Modernizing Agriculture: African Development Fund Project Changes Lives in Benin’s Ouémé Valley

Launched in 2014 with €63.63 million in funding from the African Development Bank Group’s concessional window, the African Development Fund, the project has supported 14 localities across Benin’s Ouémé, Zou, and Atlantique districts

The sun rises early over Djeffa, a locality in southeastern Benin’s Sèmè-Podji district where Justine Gantekpin is already tending to her flourishing vegetable farm. Thanks to the African Development Fund Project for Support of Agricultural Infrastructure in the Ouémé Valley (http://apo-opa.co/3Ydp5vP), Gantekpin has expanded her farm from a small plot…

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African Development Fund crucial in development and modernisation of Benin sheep industry

The project, completed in 2017, recorded satisfactory results between 2012 and 2017: the annual mortality rate fell from 12 percent to 3 percent for cattle

In the early 2000s, Benin reformed its sheep industry, largely because meat and milk production was insufficient to meet local demand. The objective was to r0educe imports, then estimated at an average of 60,000 tonnes of meat and 40,000 tonnes of milk annually. The African Development Fund, the African Development…

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At United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 79), African Development Bank affirms standing as champion of Africa’s prosperity

The 2024 meetings take place against a backdrop of growing concern about the ability to meet critical targets outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda

As the world convenes in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 79), Africa’s 1.2 billion people will be counting on their participating leaders and pan-African institutions like the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) to lead the charge on matters critical to the continent’s sustainable development…

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    • The teams working on the new financing approval include (l- to r): Shakil Beedassy, GCF Coordinator, AfDB; Marianne Kjellen, GCF Independent Technical Advisory Panel Expert; Gabriel Boc, GCF Senior Agriculture and Food Security Specialist; Laouali Garba, Division Manager, AfDB; Gareth Phillips, Division Manager, AfDB; and Godfrey Oluka, GCF Project Officer
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Green Climate Fund approves $151 million for African Development Bank’s climate resilience programme in the Horn of Africa

The approval was granted at the Fund’s 39th Board meeting and comprises a $90.7 million grant and a $60.3 million loan

The Green Climate Fund (https://apo-opa.co/3MuvYC5) has approved $151 million in financing for a major resilience programme supported by the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) to address climate vulnerability in the Horn of Africa. The approval was granted at the Fund’s 39th Board meeting and comprises a $90.7 million grant and a $60.3…

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    • The second phase of the Agro-Food Processing Zone Project in Togo will encourage the private sector to invest in the country’s key agricultural sectors
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Togo: the African Development Bank grants a loan of over USD 26 million to develop key agricultural sectors through private-sector investments

The aim is to provide the country with an industrial hub for processing agricultural products and establish a business zone to offer opportunities to young people and women in the Kara and Savanes regions

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) have approved a loan of US $26.55 million to Togo to implement the second phase of the Agro-Food Processing Zone Project. The aim is to provide the country with an industrial hub for processing agricultural products and establish a…

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    • Fifth from left: Prof Emeritus Olugbemiro Jegede; AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina; Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) Most Rev Henry C. Ndukuba at the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa retreat, where Adesina spoke on 'Food Security and Financial Sustainability in Africa'
    • AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina speaking on 'Food Security and Financial Sustainability in Africa' at the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa retreat in Abuja
    • Most Rev. Henry C. Ndukuba, Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), thanks AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina (to the left) for his lecture on 'Food Security and Financial Sustainability in Africa' at the CAPA retreat in Abuja
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Nigeria’s food importation policy could destroy country’s agriculture, warns Akinwumi Adesina

Nigeria should be producing more food to stabilize food prices, while creating jobs and reducing foreign exchange spending

The President of the African Development Bank Group Dr. Akinwumi Adesina (www.AfDB.org) has said the decision by Nigeria’s government to allow massive food importation risks destroying the country’s agriculture. This follows the announcement by Nigeria’s Minister for Agriculture Abubakar Kyari on July 10 that the Federal Government would suspend duties, tariffs,…

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    • Several regions of Mauritania will benefit from the AfDB project, which aims to increase productivity, add value to agricultural products, boost women's incomes and support female entrepreneurship
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Mauritania: The African Development Bank grants $17 million to strengthen resilience of female market gardeners, add value to agricultural production and increase incomes of rural women

The project will directly benefit up to 22,200 households and will have indirect impact on nearly 90,000 people

The African Development Bank (ADB) Group (www.AfDB.org) Board of Directors has approved a grant of $17 million to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to implement the Project for Promotion of Gender-Sensitive Agricultural Value Chains and Women's Entrepreneurship (French acronym PCVASGEF) (http://apo-opa.co/3ztTpsd). This project is financed under the Global Agriculture and…

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Liberia: African Development Fund approves $10 million from Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) Trust Fund to scale up nutrition project

The proposed project is anchored on government priorities to improve food security and strengthen livelihood, agricultural transformation, and economic prosperity for all

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved an additional $10 million from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) to implement activities and scale up the impact of the Smallholder Agriculture Development for Food and Nutrition Security project in Liberia. The project aims to improve…

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African Development Bank, World Food Programme (WFP) project boosts wheat production in war-torn Sudan amid soaring hunger

The yield of 645,000 metric tonnes of wheat this year accounted for 22 percent of the total wheat consumption needs of Sudan

An emergency wheat production project in Sudan financed by the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and executed by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has increased wheat production in the country by up to 70% in targeted project locations across five states within the past year. The African Development Bank…

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    • African Development Bank, African Union, United States Government, International Fund for Agricultural Development, CGIAR advance ties to boost Africa’s food production
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African Development Bank, African Union, United States Government, International Fund for Agricultural Development, CGIAR advance ties to boost Africa’s food production

The African Union Commission-mandated Soil Initiative for Africa is a framework effort to systematically improve Africa’s soil health and productivity

Top development organisations have pledged to forge partnerships to expand the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS), an initiative aimed at building resilient African food systems based on diverse, nutritious, and climate-adapted crops grown in healthy soils. On the sidelines of the African Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit in…