The Agriculture Delivery Compact will lay the foundation to support Sierra Leone to become food self-sufficient, reduce dependence on food importation, boost exports of processed crops, while also creating jobs in rural areas. With a total envelope o...
The Gambia’s local food production meets about 50% of the country’s food needs. Crop yields are low, with an average of 1.5 tons/ha for cereals against a potential of 3 to 6 tons/ha. Only 19.59% of the demand for rice (the staple food) is met by loca...
The Implementation of the Compact will directly contribute to increase production and productivity, improve food security and nutrition, in line with the Government strategy to transform Ugandan agriculture and livestock into a thriving sector and a...
This focuses on the development of farm blocks, strengthening and improving the delivery of extension services, promoting irrigation and water management, agricultural inputs support management, agricultural mechanization, and the development and ope...
Zimbabwe aims to achieve food, feed, and oils security and has adopted a plan to climate-proof agriculture by growing crops particularly suited to its agroecological regions. The various government programmes and projects aim to promote production an...
Implementation of the draft compact will directly contribute to achieving the goals and priorities set out in the national strategic development plan II 2018-19- 2022-23 and the comprehensive national agriculture policy for Lesotho 2022-26. It will a...
Powering agriculture source solutions within the clean energy-agriculture nexus that: Enhanced agricultural yields/productivity, Decreased post-harvest loss, Improved farmer and agribusiness income generating opportunities and revenues; or Increased...
The agriculture sector employs more than one-third of the population and accounts for approximately 23 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), comprising mainly smallholder farmers who tend to be highly dependent on rainfed agriculture. Given it...
Agricultural experts from four African countries that have sustainably grown their domestic livestock sectors to provide recommendations for unlocking the economic potential of animal agriculture and becoming self-sufficient.
Smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia make very little contribution to global warming but are amongst the first to suffer the consequences of it. In this brief we provide insights for investors from the work of the CASA programme on investment oppor...
This session will gather approximately 15 board members across the food, agriculture and livestock sector for a roundtable conversation on opportunities for long-term environmental and social resilient value chains.
In December 2022, the European Parliament reached a preliminary deal with EU governments on a new law on deforestation-free products. While this news received a positive media coverage in Europe, it re-ignited some trade tensions with producing count...