The March Food Security Monitor Report is out! The report highlights the food security situation in East Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa. In March, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme issued an early warning that 20 countries across at the World, out of which 13 are in Africa are food insecure...
Deadline: 15th April, 2021 The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) is seeking applications for project financing from Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), producer organizations, government agencies, cooperatives and enterprises to increase sustainable productive capacity and incomes of farmers/traders in the commodity dependent developing countries. The CFC provides a range of financial instruments mainly loans for equipment, working capital , or trade finance...
By 2050, the global population is expected to reach 9 billion, half of which will be found on the African continent. Current estimates show that the African population is more than a billion people of whom over 60 per cent are young men and women under the age 35, about 364 million of these are between the ages of 15-35,...
Are you an innovator or a food company that develops digital/technology-based solutions for the food industry to trace food products, monitor processes, and improve data analysis in farming, logistics, manufacturing and processing, retail, or hotels and restaurants? The international Finance Corporation is looking for you. Submit your ideas today at https://lnkd.in/db6YUcz. Deadline: 23 April 2021 ...
DEADLINE: 17th May 2021 The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) is currently receiving applications from registered African agricultural cooperatives, producer groups, processors and enterprises for grant financing. USADF is accepting applications from the following value chains in different countries: Benin: banana, cashew, maize, rice, shea, soy Burkina Faso: cashew, honey/beeswax, maize, onions, rice, shea butter, tomatoes Burundi: coffee, palm oil, potato, rice CĂ´te dâIvoire: cashew, cassava, cocoa, rice Democratic...
Self Help Africa is currently managing the AgriFI Challenge Fund on behalf of the EU. This is an âŹ18M fund to support agricultural businesses to increase their sourcing capacity through working with smallholder farmers. The organization is looking for a dynamic proactive and result oriented individual to head the AgriFI- Value Chain Implementation Team and provide strategic leadership technical oversight and...
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