Digital Tools to Attract Rural Youth to Agricultural Professions
The JINOV project enhances the appeal of the farming profession. It promotes information sharing and exchange between young rural people on social networks while facilitating access to training, information and agricultural advice.
Support for agri-food SME upgrading in Turkey
In the context of the negotiations over Turkey’s European Union membership, the project supported by AFD aims to provide financial assistance for the implementation of the policy to upgrade Turkey’s agri-food sector and will focus on bringing small industries in the sector up to health, plant-...
PERMA 2 : Promoting Economic Revival for Microbusiness and Agriculture
The project supports the development of rural microfinance and small enterprises as a sustainable way to revive the agricultural economy in Ninewa and Salah-al-Din, with complementary support to innovation in high potential value chains and the promotion of community groups of diverse origins to...
Ghana is the world’s second-largest producer of cocoa, after Côte d’Ivoire, and its economic model relies excessively on the exploitation of natural resources. In addition to operational inefficiencies, the Ghanaian cocoa supply chain is currently facing significant difficulties. In the medium...
Cambodia: AFD Commits to Rehabilitate Irrigation Schemes Damaged by last year's Severe Floods
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed an additional loan agreement of €20 million with the Cambodian Ministry of Economy and Finance for the rehabilitation of 17 irrigation schemes damaged by the floods in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey provinces in October 2020.
Agroecology and safe food system transitions in South-East Asia (ASSET)
Engaging the potential of agroecology to support the transition of food and agricultural systems towards more sustainable systems in Southeast Asia, in particular in Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam.
It is both an initiative for ecological restoration, and part of the fight against hunger and food insecurity in Africa. In existence since 2007, the Great Green Wall is above all part of an immense effort to reclaim land lost to desertification. In the wake of the World Day to Combat...
Numerous African communities dependent on agricultural imports are vulnerable to the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Both countries are major exporters of grains and important foodstuffs worldwide, especially to much of Africa. Price rises are exacerbating food insecurity in...
Wood is the main source of fuel for cooking and heating across the Sahel, but much of it is disappearing due to deforestation. How to monitor the use and abuse of precious forest resources? The answer may lie not in the ground, but in space: the Sahel Woodfuel Project, supported by AFD Group, is...
Rehabilitation of Aberdares Forest with Green Belt Movement
The Aberdares Forest, one of the last remaining primary forests in Kenya, Nairobi's main water source, was heavily threatened before being rehabilitated by the Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangarai Mathai's Green Belt Movement.
Mexico's Chiapas state is famous for its coffee farms, but small farmers have to contend with a host of challenges, from pest control and the vagaries of global markets to the growing impact of climate change. Such difficulties adversely affect farmers’ crops and their livelihoods. AFD is...
Improving Access to Agriculture Financing in Tanzania
This project aims at improving access to financing for small holder farmers in Tanzania through a credit line provided to TADB.
Impacts of weather and climate information services on African agriculture
Julie BOMPAS
Train to develop sustainable cotton production systems in Benin – this the goal of the PREFOSYC project, which was selected for the second edition of the “Academia Partnerships Africa-France” programme. Led by the Université de Parakou in Benin and the École supérieure d’agro développement...
DISCOM Project - An academia partnership to develop the distribution and marketing of local products
Train the actors involved in the distribution and marketing of local products – such is the ambition of the DISCOM project, which was selected for the second edition of the “Academia Partnerships Africa-France” programme. Led by the Université Iba Der Thiam de Thiès in Senegal and the Université...