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African Development Bank Lends US$1 Billion to Women in Africa

African Development Bank Lends US$1 Billion to Women in Africa

By African Development Bank Published February 26, 2023 African Development Bank has lent US$1 Billion to women entrepreneurs across Africa through its Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) project that was launched during the first Feed Africa conference (Dakar 1 Africa Food Summit) in the Senegalese capital, Dakar,…

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Beth Dunford calls on African and global leaders, as well as development organizations, to join the African Development Bank (AfDB)'s call for increased investments in agricultural technologies that boost Africa's food production and food security in the face of climate change.

Time to Invest in Africa’s Agriculture

By Beth Dunford Published October 17, 2021 Though more than six out of every 10 people in Sub-Saharan Africa work in the continent’s agriculture sector, the pace of the continent’s agricultural growth is not keeping up with Africa’s population growth and around 246 million Africans go to bed hungry every…

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