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Africa’s cities currently provide the largest and most rapidly growing agricultural markets in Africa. Out of total urban food sales of roughly US$200 to US$250 billion per year, over 80% comes from domestic African suppliers. In the coming decad...
Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have not been spared from the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Articulating a policy response to the impact of COVID-19 requires understanding how and which households have been impacted and if households...
This book comprises ten chapters that run an exhaustive analysis of all the issues in smallholder agriculture. It reviews the state of knowledge on the different components of the systems that require a change to ensure a smooth transformation for t...
This Quarterly presents practical solutions by exploring ten critical trends in the agriculture and food landscapes that should be prioritised for stakeholder action in the next decade. These trends were carefully and strategically selected based...
The impact investing sector has become a thriving and growing market, since the term was first coined in 2007 by the Rockefeller Foundation – “investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact al...
In the 10 years that Girum Tessema has worked for Merkeb Union, he has seen it grow in impressive style. The Merkeb FCU is multipurpose union that was established in June 2001 with 19 primary cooperatives (PCs) and with Birr 1.14 million capital....
In this issue, the following features are highlighted: • COVER STORY: BUA Group Nigeria and its plans to invest in new wheat milling and pasta plants • INDUSTRY REPORT: Animal Feed Manufacturing in Africa • COUNTRY FOCUS: Dairy Industry in Nige...
Africa’s cities currently provide the largest and most rapidly growing agricultural markets in Africa. Out of total urban food sales of roughly US$200 to US$250 billion per year, over 80% comes from domestic African suppliers. In the coming decades,...
The Food Security and Rural Entrepreneurship (FSRE) Innovation Fund is a competitive fund that supports agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia. It supports promising ideas that will develop into innovations that work in practice and that have the...
Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA) works through a demand-led approach to sustainably improve farmer livelihoods and develop commercial viability of players in the value chain. FtMA promotes the growth of viable smallholder farmers through strategic part...
The Kenya Crops and Dairy Market Systems Activity (KCDMS) is a five-year USAID program funded activity under Feed the Future, a U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative. The initiative’s goal is to help increase agr...
The Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project recently launched an analytical guidance document identifying the enabling environment factors that drive animal source food (ASF) market system success in terms of economic gr...