July 27, 2022
Zambia: Zambia - African Development Fund Approves $14.4 Million Loan to Boost Food Security in Regional Breadbasket
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, has approved a $14.4 million loan to enhance food security in… Read more »
July 26, 2022
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone - African Development Fund Approves $2 Million Grant to Boost Food Production
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, has approved a grant of $2 million to boost food production… Read more »
July 22, 2022
Gambia: The Gambia - African Development Fund Approves Additional $3.3 Million Financing for Rice Value Chain Transformation Program
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a grant of $3.5 million from the African Development Fund's Transition Support Facility as additional… Read more »
July 20, 2022
Somalia: Somalia - African Development Fund Approves $5.4 Million Grant to Build Food Security, As Millions Face Crisis
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a $5.4 million grant to support the building of urgently needed food security in Somalia. Read more »
Africa: African Development Bank Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (Taat) to Receive $27 Million for Emergency Production of 120 Million Tonnes of Food
The African Development Bank will release an additional $27.41 million to implement Phase II of its flagship agricultural initiative, "Technologies for African Agricultural… Read more »
July 19, 2022
Africa: African Development Bank Group Board Approves More Than $1 Billion for Emergency Food Production Plan
Facility targets 20 million African smallholder farmers to end reliance on food imported from Russia and Ukraine Read more »
July 18, 2022
Egypt: Egypt - African Development Bank Approves US $ 271 Million for the Food Security and Economic Resilience Support Program
The African Development Bank Board of Directors approved a loan of USD 271 million to finance Egypt's Food Security and Economic Resilience Support Program to support efforts to… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigeria - African Development Bank Board Approves $134 Million Loan to Boost Local Food Production
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Friday approved a $134 million loan for the National Agriculture Growth Scheme - Agro Pocket program in Nigeria to… Read more »
July 15, 2022
Tanzania: African Development Bank Group Approves $73.5 Million to Boost Food Production in Tanzania
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group today approved $73.5 million to finance a program that will boost Tanzania's food production by a million tonnes in… Read more »
July 14, 2022
Central African Republic: Food Security - African Development Bank Donates $5.4 Million to Central African Republic for Food Security Project
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group today approved a grant of $5.39 million to the Central African Republic. The grant will assist the production of an… Read more »
Kenya: Kenya - African Development Bank Approves a €63 Million Loan to Increase Cereals and Oil Seed Production
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a €63 million loan to Kenya to significantly boost cereals and oil seeds production by over 1.5… Read more »
July 11, 2022
Nigeria: African Development Bank-Supported Trade Credit Guarantee Project Increases Access to Fertilizer in Nigeria
In the middle of Kamba market in Nigeria's north-western Kebbi State, hub agro-dealer Umar Sani points to a stack of fertilizer bags in Alhaji Musa's retail shop, a sign to… Read more »
July 08, 2022
Senegal: African Development Bank Extends €121 Million Food-Production Loan to Senegal to Cushion Impacts of War in Ukraine
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group today approved a €121 million loan to Senegal for implementation of an emergency agricultural programme that will… Read more »
June 25, 2022
Africa: African Development Bank Group Urges G7 Countries to Support Africa's Emergency Food Production Plan
The world must do more to tackle the increasing global food insecurity worsened by Russia's war in Ukraine, the African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina told a… Read more »
June 22, 2022
Africa: Outside the Classroom, Ghanaian Student Thrives As a Poultry Farmer
Mornings start early for Clara Saibu of Tamale in Ghana. She doesn't wake up to the sound of an alarm clock, but to chickens, waiting to be fed. Read more »
June 10, 2022
Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso - A Food and Nutrition Project Has Been a 'Godsend' for Students At Village Schools
It's 13:00 at the primary school in Konioudou, a village in the rural commune of Kombissiri, about 40 km outside the capital Ouagadougou, and it's time for the pupils' midday… Read more »
Ghana: Ghana - Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism Extends $2m to Etg Inputs Ghana Limited to Boost Farmers' Access to Fertilizers
The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) will extend a $2 million partial trade credit guarantee to ETG Inputs Ghana Limited to support delivery of fertilizer to 200,000… Read more »
May 27, 2022
Africa: Ethiopia Shares 'Rare' Success Story, Sets Its Sights On Becoming an African Breadbasket
Ethiopia has set its sights on becoming a regional breadbasket, the country's finance minister Semereta Sewasew said on Thursday. Read more »
May 26, 2022
Africa: African Leaders Signal Support for African Development Bank's Emergency Food Production Facility
African governments and international development institutions have voiced support for the African Development Bank Group's $1.5 billion emergency food production facility to help… Read more »
May 24, 2022
Africa: Assemblées annuelles 2022 : Akinwumi Adesina trace le chemin d'une agriculture résiliente pour nourrir tout le continent
Le président du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement, Dr Akinwumi Adesina a annoncé, lundi à Accra, les engagements clés de la Banque… Read more »
May 23, 2022
Africa: Africa's Leading Financial Institution Will Avert Looming Food Crisis
The African Development Bank Group's Board of Directors has approved a $1.5 billion Emergency Food Production Facility to help tackle the global food crisis sparked by the… Read more »
May 21, 2022
Congo-Kinshasa: African Development Bank Support for Two Road Projects Opens Up Major Agricultural Areas in the DRC
In the early 2010s, Godelive Ngalula, a trader from Kikwit, the main town of Kwilu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, spent a week to travel the 350 kilometres (km) to… Read more »
Niger: The African Development Bank Helps Strengthen Food Security in Niger's Maradi and Tillabéry Regions
In 2017, 32-year-old Hamsa Hamidou of Simiri in southwest Niger's Tillabéry region, was given a cow. Three years later, he sold it and used the money to buy a sheep and ewe.… Read more »
May 20, 2022
Africa: Africa Has What It Takes to Feed Itself, African Development Bank Chief Tells G7 Development Ministers
Ethiopia no longer imports wheat, thanks to climate resilient technology from the African Development Bank's TAAT program Read more »
May 21, 2022
Senegal: Cop 15 - Senegal, Burkina Faso Reveal Success Stories During Discussion On the Economic Benefits of Sustainable Land Management
Scaling up sustainable land management and ecosystem restoration have definite economic benefits for African countries, according to experts who took part in a panel discussion as… Read more »