October 25, 2017
Africa: Multi-Stakeholder Preparatory Workshop to the Great Green Wall
Context of the Partnership between the Bank and the PAGGW in the context of the Desert to Power Initiative. Read more »
October 24, 2017
Africa: People, Planet, and Progress in the SDG Era
As international institutions mobilize to meet the ambitious milestones of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations… Read more »
October 25, 2017
Africa: Princess Astrid of Belgium Visits AfDB Headquarters in Abidjan Wednesday
Her Royal Highness, Princess Astrid of Belgium, accompanied by a high-level delegation of members of the country's federal and regional governments and business leaders, will make… Read more »
October 20, 2017
Africa: AfDB's Agricultural Transformation Strategy to Guarantee 513 Million Tons of Additional Food Production
Adesina rallies support for technologically driven agriculture in Africa Read more »
Africa: Adesina to Set Up Fund for Young Farmers, Agripreneurs With Us $250,000 World Food Prize Money
US Vice-President praises Laureate, pledges more collaboration on food security Read more »
October 23, 2017
Africa: Adesina Caps World Food Prize Week With Speech to Youth
One day after his historic pledge to use the World Food Prize money to finance African youth and entrepreneurship in agriculture, African Development Bank President Akinwumi… Read more »
October 22, 2017
Africa: "Africa's Pathway Out of Poverty" - By Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, World Food Prize Laureate Luncheon, October 20, 2017, in Des Moines, Iowa
Today, I will be speaking about Africa's pathway out of poverty. For millions of rural poor, their aspiration is that they will make it out of poverty, especially through their… Read more »
Africa: New World Food Prize Africa Institute to Produce Borlaug-Adesina Fellows
Donors grow Adesina's fund for young African agripreneurs to US $600,000 Read more »
October 19, 2017
Africa: AfDB and Openoil Launch Report On How African Governments Manage Extractive Resources
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and OpenOil, a Berlin-based financial analysis firm, have jointly produced a report on how African governments use financial models to manage… Read more »
Africa: Going Digital AfDB's '50 Million Women Speak Digital Platform
Online platforms can dramatically change the digital economy and bring enormous benefits in today's digital society. They play a prominent role in the creation of 'digital value'… Read more »
Africa: AfDB Launches Pilot Programme to Cultivate the Savannah in Eight African Countries
The savannahs of Africa cover a mind-boggling 600 million hectares, of which 400 million hectares are cultivable, the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina,… Read more »
October 18, 2017
Africa: Three World Food Prize Laureates Call for Global Action to Save African Crops
The world's anti-hunger organizations have an opportunity to prevent widespread destruction of African crops by stopping the spread of an insect, warn three of the most respected… Read more »
October 20, 2017
Africa: World Food Prize Laureate Says Recognition Motivates Him to Accelerate Africa's Agricultural Transformation
The World Food Prize is a great motivation which puts the wind behind the sails of what the African Development Bank is doing with its development priorities - the High 5s -… Read more »
Africa: Adesina Calls for Immediate Action Over Deepening Crisis of Global Malnutrition
African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina has called for urgent action from stakeholders over the deepening crisis of global malnutrition. Read more »
October 18, 2017
Africa: Remarks Delivered By Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, World Food Prize Laureate 2017
Good morning. Let me welcome you all to this session, organized by the African Development Bank. Read more »
Africa: Making Farming Cool - Investing in Future African Farmers and Agripreneurs
We are grateful that you all made it here at 7 :30am. You are the early birds. And early birds always wake up everyone to action! Read more »
Africa: AfDB Seeks Global Support for Africa's Young Farmers
Highlights agribusiness as solution to Africa's youth unemployment Read more »
October 20, 2017
Africa: Towards a Prosperous African Agriculture
No region of the world has ever industrialised without the agricultural sector being first transformed. Africa is the last continent to do so and needs to catch up fast. Read more »
October 13, 2017
Africa: "Betting On Africa to Feed the World" - Adesina, 2017 World Food Prize Laureate, to Deliver Norman Borlaug Lecture On World Food Day
The African Development Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina, will deliver the Norman Borlaug Lecture as part of the World Food Prize events taking place from October 16-20, 2017 in… Read more »
October 18, 2017
Africa: Urban Diets and Nutrition - Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for Policy Action.
On the eve of the Laureate Award Ceremony where African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina will receive the World Food Prize, the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food… Read more »
October 17, 2017
Africa: Africa Holds the Key for Feeding 9 Billion People By 2050
Calls for land tax for unused agricultural land or underutilized agricultural land Read more »
Africa: Betting On Africa to Feed the World
- Lecture Delivered By Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, Phd, President, African Development Bank, World Food Prize Laureate 2017, At Norman Borlaug Lecture At Iowa State University,… Read more »
October 16, 2017
Africa: World Food Day - AfDB Urges African Leaders to Make Agriculture Attractive to Young Africans and Stem Migration
"We must get youths into agriculture and see it as a profitable business venture not a sign of lacking ambition."- Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank. Read more »
Africa: Policy Reforms Urgently Required for Increased Private Investment in Agriculture and Agribusiness in Africa, Says Blanke
Jennifer Blanke is the Vice-President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development at the African Development Bank (AfDB). On the occasion of World Food Day, October 16, she spoke on… Read more »
October 15, 2017
Africa: Transforming Agriculture in Africa
The African rural world is one I know well. I grew out of rural poverty myself and went to a rural school without electricity and lived in a village where we had to walk for… Read more »
