The Federal Republic of Nigeria is committed to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as well as measuring and monitoring progress towards the goals and targets that Heads of State and Government collectively agreed at the Special S...
Food insecurity remains a persistent problem in East Africa (EA), despite the fact that the region produces enough food to feed itself. This points to one of the biggest challenges facing East Africa: the inability to move food from surplus to food...
This report is aimed at mobile money providers, which have the opportunity to drive growth in rural areas in developing countries by digitizing agricultural payments. Two types of payments are ripe for digitization: procurement payments from agribus...
Agriculture holds the key to broad-based economic growth, poverty reduction and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This is due to the importance of the sector for SSA economies, the extent of rural poverty and the dependence of 50 million sma...
A value chain is a connected string of companies, groups and other players working together to satisfy market demands for a particular product or group of products. In recent times, Financial Institutions are more interested in financing various acto...
At this time of unprecedented crisis, social entrepreneurs are working on the frontlines of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its severe economic and social consequences. In the shared belief that this crisis is also an opportunity to chan...
2019 has been a tumultuous year for agricultural commodities as prices gyrated due to a combination of political, environmental, demand and supply related factors. The price volatility has been broad-based, cutting across all agricultural commodit...
The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) is the outcome of an extensive diagnostic study of Ethiopia’s agriculture sector led by the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and facilitated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 20...
In this report, the gains of D4Ag is explored with respect to how it has grown towards reaching it's potential. Our ambition, therefore, is for this report to serve as a barometer for the current state of D4Ag in Africa.
The following summary table presents institutional, policy, and programmatic innovations and implementation modalities of the country case studies.