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- 20 Mar 2025
AfDB Provides €5m Grant to IITA to Advance Agricultural Transformation in Africa
The African Development Bank has provided a €5 million grant in supplementary financing to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to advance food security and climate-resilient…
- 6 Aug 2018
Adesina, AfDB President Calls for Technology Transfer to Farmers
The President of the African Development Bank Group, Akinwumi Adesina, has made an urgent call to give farmers across the continent new technologies with the potential to transform agricultural…
- 6 Dec 2016
African Economic Conference Opens in Abuja Focusing on Industrialization
The 11th African Economic Conference (AEC) kicked off in Abuja, Nigeria, yesterday with a consensus on the need to scale up the continent’s agricultural transformation to spur…
- 16 Jul 2024
Nigeria’s food importation policy could destroy country’s agriculture, warns Akinwumi Adesina
Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group has said the decision by Nigeria’s government to allow massive food importation risks destroying the country’s agriculture. Dr.…
- 27 Feb 2026
More 14m Farmers to Benefit from AfDB-backed Initiative
Additional 14 million farmers in 37 low-income and vulnerable countries served by the African Development Fund, the Bank Group's concessional financing window, are set to benefit from a technology…
- 8 Feb 2018
AfDB Achieved Highest Annual Disbursement in 2017 – Adesina
Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of African Development Bank (AfDB), said that the Bank, 2017, achieved its highest annual disbursement ever of 7.67 billion dollars on supports. Adesina said this in a…