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Global Food Security Strategy East Africa Regional Plan 2019-2024
East AfricaFeed the Future

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...

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An Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Food Security
All CountriesEC - FAO Food Security Programme

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

Agri-Tech and Digital Services
Digitising Payments in Agricultural Value Chains: The Revenue Opportunity to 2025
All CountriesRishi Raithatha

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...

Research and Development
Unlocking Productivity and Investment Opportunities Across Nigeria’s Agribusiness Value-Chain
NigeriaPWC
Agribusiness SMEs
Agricultural Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa - From a Development Challenge to a Business Opportunity
All CountriesClaire Schaffnit-Chatterjee

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...

Agribusiness SMEs
Agricultural Value Chain Financing and Small Scale Farmers in Nigeria: The Pre-requisites
NigeriaEvbuomwan, G. O. and Okoye, L. U.

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...

Research and Development
Transforming Nigeria's Agricultural Value Chain
NigeriaPWC

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

Research and Development
The COVID-19 Crisis and the Seed Sector in Africa: Impact, Options for Actions and Recommendations
All CountriesThe African Seed Trade Association (AFSTA)

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...

Research and Development
Getting from Crisis to Systems Change: Advice for Leaders in the Time of COVID
All CountriesCatalyst 2030

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...

Research and Development
Annual Commodity Review 2019
NigeriaAFEX Commodities Exchange Limited

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...

Research and Development
Annual Report 2018-19
EthiopiaEthiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency

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...

Research and Development
Insects for Africa
All CountriesA.G. Vernooij and T. Veldkamp

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...