Kenyan agriculture entrepreneurs bet on diversification, networking to weather COVID-19 shocks, study
Benedetta Nangila’s Bracharia fodder farm in Bumula, Bungoma County Credit USIU
Throughout 2020 and the myriad of challenges...
IFAD makes landmark investment in impact fund helping rural SMEs
In a continuation of its efforts to help small-scale farmers and
micro-, small and medium size rural enterprises in developing countries create
jobs and...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and IFAD partner for better nutrition and resilience...
The
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today announced support
for a new programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to reduce
poverty,...
Mitigating COVID-19’s impact on Africa’s food systems
By : Atsuko Toda and Martin Fregene
We are facing great uncertainty on the
African continent. The global spread of...
Global leaders to discuss how to finance a more resilient, inclusive post-COVID world at...
With surging food prices, the socio-economic fall-out of COVID-19 and an increasingly unpredictable climate, the world’s poorest people are facing unprecedented challenges in growing,...
Experts urge Kenyan smallholder farmers to embrace nature-based food production
Scientific experts are urging Kenyan smallholder farmers to embrace nature-based food production systems that guarantee food security and climate resilience amid shocks...
Digital application comes to the aid of farmers during COVID-19
Covid-19 pandemic has affected millions of people
worldwide. Most have been asked to stay indoors to curb the spread of the
highly-contagious disease. This...
Proximie Partners with Jhpiego in New Initiative to Improve Obstetric Surgical Care
Proximie has teamed up with Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, on a safe surgery project in Kenya to layer in their unique software...