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...

Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. - 1996 World Food Summit

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...

Nigeria is a big producer of many agricultural commodities. To achieve self-sufficiency and deepen diversification, there is an increasing need to increase production and value addition across key agriculture food products

In collaboration with partners in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Uganda and within the larger framework of the Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa (ISSD Africa) programme, WCDI part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) conducted rapid ass...

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...

The Seed Money Project “Insects for Africa” was initiated to determine the need for alternative animal feed ingredients and the options of insects as a potential source in Eastern Africa. The aim of the project is to solve a local system problem. A...