The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System - Eastern and Central Africa (ReSAKSS-ECA) has launched a new web tool to track investments made for African agriculture.
Investing in agriculture is one of the most effective ways of promoting agricultural productivity, reducing poverty and enhancing environmental sustainability, according to FAO’s flagship annual report, which released last week in Rome.
When the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) was established by the African Union assembly in 2003, African countries had a clear goal in mind: to eliminate hunger, reduce poverty and increase food security through agricultural investment and growth.
Five African countries - Burundi, the Gambia, Malawi, Senegal and Tanzania –will receive a total of $160.5 million grants from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) to improve the food security in the nations.
“By 2010, African countries, on average, were spending 6.5 percent of their national budgets on agriculture and had achieved a 6.7 percent agricultural growth rate.” - ReSAKSS data was cited by Group of Eight (G8) in its Camp David Accountability Report.
IFPRI launched 2011 Global Food Policy Report, the first in a new annual series, at Washington DC today. In this new flagship publication, ReSAKSS is highlighted as a major knowledge management platform to “help decision makers address real-life questions” along with other IFPRI co-facilitated online networks.
The Centre for the Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa (CCARDESA), an initiative by the South African Development Community (SADC) to achieve food security through research and innovation, is now open for business in Botswana's
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Investing in agriculture is one of the most effective ways of promoting agricultural productivity, reducing poverty and enhancing environmental sustainability, according to FAO’s flagship annual report, which released last week in Rome.
