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Financial Services
Agri-SME Finance: Navigating Volatility In The Wake Of The War In Ukraine
All CountriesSAFIN, IFC, IFAD
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This learning brief summarizes the challenges, opportunities, and responses of agri-SMEs, financiers and development partners to the current food crisis, as described in our recent learning event hosted on 06 July 2022. It details the recent innovat...

Food Safety
Assessing The Impacts Of The COVID-19 Pandemic On The Livelihoods Of Rural People
All CountriesSitko, N., Knowles M., Viberti, F., Bordi, D.
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In this paper we focus specifically on differences in the welfare impacts of COVID-19 on rural livelihoods between countries using nationally representative data that we disaggregate by food system typology. This typology captures key structural diff...

Climate Change
GAIN Interview Cruncher - How Climate Change Threatens Nutrition And Food Security – And What We Can Do About It?
All CountriesShiulie Ghosh
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As part of GAIN’s new series on climate change and nutrition and why they need each other. From plant growth to crop yields, it's clear that our food security is being challenged on multiple fronts: high temperatures drought, flooding, they are all t...

Agri-Food News and Media
Food Security Monitor - July 2022
All CountriesAGRA
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AGRA’s Food Security Monitor provides an overview assessment of the food security outlook in AGRA focus countries in East, West and Southern Africa, considering the movement of prices of main food staples and government interventions that impact on d...

Agri-Food News and Media
A Documentation & Celebration of West African Food & Drink Knowledge & Heritage
All CountriesFeast Afrique
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Feast Afrique is a celebration of West African culinary heritage curated by Ozoz Sokoh - The Kitchen Butterfly.

Food Business
Africa’s Contribution To Global Food
All CountriesEd Mabaya, Ph.D
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Global spread of African cuisine Africa’s Contribution to Global Food is widely evolving and its evident in the global spread of African cuisine across countries such as Brazil, United States, Haiti, France, Jamaica, Mexico, Italy, United Kingdom, Tr...

Marketing and Trade
The Role Of African Governments In Supporting African Food Exports
NigeriaTemitope Jebutu
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Over 90% of the processed food that is consumed in Nigeria is imported, even though 60% of the population is engaged in agriculture. Not unconnected, over 55% of household income is spent on food. 20-50% of grains, herbs, fruits, and vegetables are w...

Transportation and Logistics
Aviation As An Accelerator For Food Tourism And Logistics
All CountriesAdefunke Adeyemi
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Aviation connects African businesses to African and World markets. It is critical to the eceonomies of landlocked countries. Aviation serves as Africa’s lifeline and accelerator for food tourism and logistics with over 1.2 billion people, young and g...

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
The Future of Africa's Agriculture: An Assessment of the Role of Youth and Technology
All CountriesHeifer
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There is a transformation going on in the agricultural sector in Africa. Technology has been at the heart of these transformations and several innovations have emerged to cause a radical change in the Agricultural sector. Innovations have emerged to...

Marketing and Trade
Formal and Informal Contract Farming in Mozambique : Socially Embedded Relations of Agricultural Intensification
MozambiqueGert Jan Veldwisch, Philip Woodhouse
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This paper explores the role of contract farming arrangements in agricultural intensification in sub-Saharan Africa, combining secondary literature and original case material from Mozambique. The paper extends the scope of “contract farming” beyond t...

Policy and Advocacy
Nature's Solutions: Policy Innovations and Opportunities for Africa’s Bioeconomy
All CountriesMeera Shah, Mahamadou Tankari, Sarah Lewis
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This report by the Malabo Montpellier Panel shows that countries in Africa can leverage their knowledge and biological resources to develop sustainable bioeconomies to provide products, processes, and services that optimize social, economic, and envi...

Research and Development
2022 Africa Agribusiness Outlook
All CountriesAGRA, KPMG, PIATA, BMGF, USAID and Rockefeller Fou...
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This report builds on the inaugural 2020 Africa Agribusiness Outlook and presents the results of our conversations across the ecosystem. We increased the number of key countries for our one-on-one interviews and improved the online survey to cover ne...