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Africa needs new ‘alliance for digitalisation’ of agriculture

New digital services designed to boost African agriculture could reach 250 million farmers by 2030 but only with coordinated efforts across the continent, the...

Small African businesses now driving growth in Agriculture

A report published this week finds that millions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) source directly from millions more smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa. These...

AfDB to cultivate the savannah in eight countries

African Development Bank is to roll out an ambitious programme to cultivate the Savannah in Ghana and other seven African countries. The initiative dubbed Transformation of the African Savannah will begin next month.

5.6 million people benefit from AfDB’s agriculture interventions in 2016

Efforts by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to upgrade Africa’s agriculture sector is yielding good results with about 5.6 million people benefiting from the Bank’s interventions in the past year. Among other things, AfDB plans scale up its focus on regional integration in 2017 as an important part of its development work with the planned launch of a Regional Integration Strategy. These were some of the details pulled from the Annual Development Effectiveness Review 2017 (ADER) released by the AfDB .

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Ghana’s new law that jails citizens not wearing facemask 10 years

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