The agriculture sector employs more than one-third of the population and accounts for approximately 23 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), comprising mainly smallholder farmers who tend to be highly dependent on rainfed agriculture. Given it...
Agricultural experts from four African countries that have sustainably grown their domestic livestock sectors to provide recommendations for unlocking the economic potential of animal agriculture and becoming self-sufficient.
The wealth of evidence gathered in this report provides some answers to what needs to be done to achieve a food systems transformation in Africa that is sustainable, resilient, equitable, and in line with overall climate goals and ambitions.
Smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia make very little contribution to global warming but are amongst the first to suffer the consequences of it. In this brief we provide insights for investors from the work of the CASA programme on investment oppor...
This session will gather approximately 15 board members across the food, agriculture and livestock sector for a roundtable conversation on opportunities for long-term environmental and social resilient value chains.
In December 2022, the European Parliament reached a preliminary deal with EU governments on a new law on deforestation-free products. While this news received a positive media coverage in Europe, it re-ignited some trade tensions with producing count...
Mobile Aggregation Centres (MACs) have emerged as a flexible, transparent and cost-efficient solution for Smart Logistics Services (SLS) to source from scattered smallholder beans farmers.
Key stakeholders in the public and private sector came together to promote the production and consumption of locally produced rice, explore job creation with a focus on women and youth, showcase technologies that increase production and harvest effic...
Here are some ideas on how we may bootstrap food systems in Africa’s urban areas by leveraging existing digital tools.
The report identifies four countries that are leading the transition to a more systematic approach to building a nutritious, resilient, inclusive and sustainable food system. The four countries: Ghana, Malawi, Morocco, and Rwanda, have developed inno...
Decision-making in times of crisis is challenging. In the race to save lives, trade-offs have to be made. The sudden onset of the pandemic, its rapid evolution, and the enormous needs to be addressed may have led to Africa’s leaders failing to consid...
In recent years, some private sector players in Uganda have invested in testing systems to detect aflatoxin in animal feeds. The goal is to prevent milk and meat contamination. Others have developed refrigeration units that are powered with biogas fr...