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Hunger on the rise in Africa, new UN report reveals

13 Feb 19 News

A new joint United Nations report reveals that hunger is on the rise in Africa following years of decline due to a number of reasons, including difficult global economic conditions...

tralac’s Daily News Selection: AU Summit review

12 Feb 19 News

A guide to the AU Summit: Outcomes, commentaries, side-events, country postings South Africa deposited its AfCFTA instrument of ratification, as did Mauritania and Republic o...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

07 Feb 19 News

Economic Partnership Agreement between the Eastern Southern Africa (ESA) States and the UK: documentation downloads Explanatory memorandum Parliamentary report Treaty text Afri...

Using Intra-African Trade Scorecards to identify opportunities for increasing agricultural trade

05 Feb 19 News

Across the continent, African governments are taking steps to make agricultural trade freer. In June 2014, heads of state of African Union member countries issued a bold commitment...

The 2018 Global Food Security Index: What does the picture look like?

18 Nov 18 Blog

Food security is the state in which all people at all times have physical and economic access to adequate, safe and nutritious food that meet their dietary needs and food preferenc...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

17 Oct 18 News

African trade policy events now underway: In Nairobi: The 6th Pan African Conference on Illicit Financial Flows and Taxation In Brazzaville: Republic of Congo, UNECA work...

Boosting farm productivity in Africa through the sustainable use of machines

10 Oct 18 News

New African Union-FAO framework also aims to create new jobs while reducing reliance on manual labor FAO and the African Union on 5 October 2018 launched a new framework document ...

Global hunger continues to rise, new UN report says

14 Sep 18 News

821 million people now hungry and over 150 million children stunted, putting hunger eradication goal at risk New evidence continues to signal that the number of hungry people in t...

President Kenyatta witnesses signing of investment deals worth $238 million in Washington DC

28 Aug 18 News

President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday witnessed the signing of two agreements that will see two US companies invest $238 million worth of projects in Kenya as he urged the US governme...

African Development Bank President Adesina calls for technology transfer to farmers

07 Aug 18 News

Africa should be the breadbasket of the world, has no reason spending US$ 35 billion a year importing food, Adesina tells Agriculture conference in U.S. The President of the ...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

10 Jul 18 News

COMESA Summit update: The 38th Inter-governmental Committee began on Monday in Lusaka. The committee will review reports on the implementation of regional integration programmes an...

Climate variability accelerates food and nutrition insecurity in Southern Africa

10 Jul 18 News

Food insecure population on the increase The number of food insecure people in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region in the 2018/19 consumption year is 29 milli...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

04 Jul 18 News

Talks between Kenya and Tanzania to resolve the non-tariff barriers affecting bilateral trade entered their second day today. For updates: @Trade_Kenya Concluding today, in Lagos:...

OECD-FAO: Predictable agricultural trade conditions needed to address food security challenges

04 Jul 18 News

Slowing population growth is expected to lead to decelerating demand for for food Global agricultural production is growing steadily across most commodities, reaching record level...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

21 Jun 18 News

Africa payments: Insights into African transaction flows (SWIFT) In 2013, SWIFT published the white paper “Africa Payments: Insights into African Transaction Flows”, which att...

Report of the tenth session of the Committee on Regional Cooperation and Integration

17 Apr 18 News

The tenth session of the Committee on Regional Cooperation and Integration was held in Addis Ababa on 1 and 2 November 2017, on the theme, “Implementation of the Continental Free...

African Development Bank’s Economic Outlook shows decline in regional economies

13 Mar 18 News

The African Development Bank has expanded its flagship publication, the African Economic Outlook, with five regional reports. The regional economic studies were released in Tunis (...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

08 Mar 18 News

Today’s tralac daily news selection marks International Women’s Day 2018: enjoy our compilation of commentaries, data sources, event pointers * * * Namibia’s Mrs Sabine Bö...

Southern Africa Trust launches report on women traders and farmers in SADC

08 Mar 18 News

The experiences and challenges of women in the SADC region: The case of trade and agriculture sectors Women play a key role in the trade and agriculture in the Southern African De...

Time is Now to scale up women’s rights and nutrition activism in Africa

08 Mar 18 News

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, three African leaders and activists, Martin Chungong, Cameroonian Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Dr Ibrahim May...