The African continent has the most rapid rates of urbanization in the world. As a result of this, cities are the largest and fastest-growing agricultural markets in Africa, with between $200 billion to $250 billion per year in food sales. According t...
As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds, policy reactions among the world’s leading food and agricultural producers have led to disruptions in world supply chains, threatening food security systems in food import-dependent countries. African governments...
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...
In June 2014, African Union member states committed to a set of goals in the Malabo Declaration aimed at boosting intraAfrican trade in agricultural commodities and services by 2025. Point V of the Malabo Declaration lays out the goals in detail: ...
The West Africa regional trade scorecard compiles publicly available and regularly updated data related to four key trade determinants that are actionable at the national level, including: (1) production capacity, (2) the cost of trade, (3) ins...
The Southern Africa regional trade scorecard compiles publicly available and regularly updated data related to four key trade determinants that are actionable at the national level, including: (1) production capacity, (2) the cost of trade, (3)...
Recent micro level data from East Africa is used to benchmark aggregate data and assess the role of agricultural inputs in explaining variation in crop yields on smallholding plots. Fertilizer, improved seeds, protection against erosion and pesticide...
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 Youth in Agroecology and Business Learning Track Africa (YALTA) program aims to support young Agripreneurs to apply agroecological principles and to co-create networks around them, contributing to the increased sustainability of food systems and...
As regards the analysis, Gabiro Agribusiness Hub Project, which seeks to develop Rwanda’s farming sector, will receive the largest share of the 2020/2021 agriculture budget. This was disclosed during a virtual press conference on disbursement of fu...
This rapid context analysis has been developed in the inception stage of the third phase of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Integrated Country Approach programme (ICA programme) for boosting decent jobs for youth in...