Concerned over the serious nature and the increasing scale of poaching and illegal trade in wildlife and its adverse economic, social and environmental impacts, and expressing particular concern over the steady rise in the level of rhino poaching and alarmingly high levels of killings of elephants in Africa, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted […]
By James Reinl New York, United States – Doing business in Kenya is tough, said Eric Muthomi, but the rewards can be huge. His company, a porridge maker called Stawi, struggles with everything from licensing laws and high electricity costs to the traffic-clogged roads that slow his delivery trucks. Last year, Muthomi took part in […]
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has been accredited as a partnering Institution to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), making it the fund’s first African development finance institution. AFC was invited by the GCF to consider becoming an accredited institution, and following submission of its application in early 2015, AFC has this month attained full accreditation. Accreditation […]
—-Why 2015 is the Year of Action The 3rd World Summit on Financing for Development (FfD) is underway in Addis Ababa from Monday the 13th– 16th of July 2015.
Favorable worldwide conditions for cereal crops will lead to better-than-expected production this growing season at the global level, despite continuing apprehension over El Niño.
While extractives are increasingly important to Ghana’s economy—with gold and (more recently) oil important exports—agriculture continues to be the dominant sector.
The Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Strive Masiyiwa, announced today that Dr. Joachim von Braun, an economist and food policy expert known worldwide for his commitment to agriculture as a path out of poverty, has joined the organization’s board.
The EU Ambassador to Ghana, William Hanna has embarked on a three-day visit to North of Ghana to learn lessons from EU-funded projects in the Northern and Upper East regions of Ghana.
A new study by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) indicated that Ghana could raise the standard of living of rural farmers, meet the nation’s food needs, and transform the economy if new approaches to farming, processing, and marketing cassava, cocoa, poultry, and rice are applied.
The number of hungry people in the world has dropped to 795 million — 216 million fewer than in 1990-92 — or around one person out of every nine, according to the latest edition of the annual UN hunger report (The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 – SOFI).
