Tanzania: African Development Bank project tripled incomes of rural producers and traders
An African Development Bank project to enhance market infrastructure, value addition and rural finance (MIVARF) (https://bit.ly/38xRvFo) in Tanzania produced highly satisfactory results,...
Adoption of precision agriculture to match fertilizer inputs in livestock farming
Livestock farmers are increasingly adopting precision
agriculture techniques to match fertilizer inputs more closely to grassland
requirements. The techniques, underpinned by a combined package...
Development banks fund livestock farms to the tune of US $2.6Bn
Livestock farms around the world are set
to receive US $2.6Bn in funding from the International Finance Corporation
(IFC) and the European Bank for...
IFAD invests €77.7 million in Niger for food and nutrition security and climate change...
The
International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations (IFAD)
today announced a new project that will boost support for about 210,000 poor
rural...
Resilience in the time of COVID
Many companies are struggling to cope with the pandemic
that has caused deaths of well over 400,000 people globally. In Kenya it is...
ITFC Finances Afreximbank with US$200 Million COVID-19 Response Package for the Agriculture Sector in...
Hani Salem Sonbol, ITFC CEO and Benedict Okey Oramah president signing a finance agreement in 2019
Ghana Cocoa Board, African Development Bank and financial partners celebrate first $200 million disbursement...
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and lenders
have welcomed the first disbursement of $200 million of a syndicated loan
facility to boost cocoa productivity in...
African Development Bank approves $3 million loan reallocation to agriculture sector for COVID-19 response
Togo is highly
dependent on its agricultural sector, which accounts for more than 40% of GDP
and employs almost 65% of its active population
NADIP gets US $48m to revive irrigation in Zimbabwe
National Accelerated Irrigation Development Programme (NAIDP) gets US $48m for purposes of reviving the irrigation in Zimbabwe. At least 10 major irrigation...
Kenya Climate Innovation Centre to receive US $14m in funding for the AgriBiz program
The Kenya Climate Innovation Centre (KCIC) is set to receive US $14m in funding from the European Union and its partners for...