There is a vast, untapped potential in Ethiopia’s agricultural sector, as well as considerable challenges around environmental sustainability and the need to create more jobs. The main question posed by O-Farms is: how can Ethiopia sustainably feed a...

Malnutrition and disability disproportionally affect children living in low- and middle-income countries. They are also intertwined, with malnutrition driving disability and disability making children more at risk for being malnourished. Children wit...

This book will convince the reader to care about fruit and vegetables and to see that the small-scale production of these crops is fundamental to achieving sustainable development goals. In five chapters, the reader will learn about the challenges an...

The highly anticipated UN World Food Summit ended with an announcement of new coalitions to increase healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The headlines for Africa coming out of the summit are all too familiar — the continent faces mass starva...

Nigerian dried fruit snacks producer ReelFruit recently raised $3 million in series A funding from investors Alitheia IDF, Samata Capital and Flying Doctor Healthcare Investment Company. The capital will go towards building new processing facilities...

On March 9th, 2021, the African business landscape was buzzing with excitement and optimism in reaction to the news that Flutterwave, a payments company, had closed its Series C fundraising round at $170 million[1], valuing the company at over $1 b...

This research paper analyses the emerging patterns, determinants and examines the policy implication of processed food export in Nigeria from 1995 to 2014 as potential for reducing large post-harvest losses, increase in processed food export, employm...

Our Digital Marketplace Playbook presents a framework for leveraging digital and data innovation with supporting cases from emerging markets...

The broad objective of this study is to undertake research on development perspectives of an integrated agro-industrial ecosystem in Africa that the African Development Bank (AfDB) has developed and termed Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SA...

It is estimated that between 50%-90% of Africa’s trade in tropical timber and products is illegal1 which has a significant negative impact on any national economy. It is well-documented that economic activities operating outside the law impact the ec...

2021 has brought enormous challenges as well as opportunities for Africa’s agricultural trade. The COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect human health and welfare as well as economic activity in Africa and around the globe. 2021 also marked the launch...

There has been a surge in the attention to sustainable agricultural mechanization for Africa. The importance of supporting agricultural mechanization in the value chain in order to achieve agricultural and rural development is well recognized. Theref...