Tag: Food security
IMF and WTO heads call for lifting trade restrictions on medical supplies and food
25 Apr 20 NewsInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo issued a joint call on 24 April for governments to refrain from i...
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24 Apr 20 NewsPeter Fabricius: Africa’s free trade agreement gets locked down for the year (ISS, Daily Maverick)
The AfCFTA has become the latest in the many casualties of the devastating cor...
COVID-19: FAO and African Union commit to safeguarding food security amid crisis
17 Apr 20 NewsRegional body and UN agency join forces to minimize lockdown’s impact on continent where one in five goes hungry
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO...
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14 Apr 20 NewsEAC Heads of State will convene an extraordinary virtual summit, tomorrow, to discuss the coronavirus pandemic
EAC Secretariat urges partner states to prepare post COVID-19 recove...
COVID-19: The global food supply chain is holding up, for now
08 Apr 20 NewsThe unfolding COVID-19 pandemic is so far having little impact on the global food supply chain, but that could change for the worse – and soon – if anxiety-driven panic by majo...
39th SADC Summit: Towards Inclusive, Sustainable Industrial Development
06 Aug 19 NewsLeaders from southern Africa are meeting for their annual summit next week to chart the development agenda of the region.
Running under the theme “A Conducive Environment f...
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26 Jul 19 NewsIs the AfCFTA practical?: a CNBC interview with Rudi Steinbach (World Bank Africa specialist)
Regional growth spillovers in Sub-Saharan Africa (IMF)
This paper attempts to shed l...
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12 Jul 19 NewsDiarise:
Uganda-Tanzania Business Forum (4-5 September, Dar es Salaam). The business forum, to be presided over by President Museveni and Tanzania president John Magufuli, wil...
Kenya Economic Update: Transforming agricultural productivity to achieve food security for all
09 Apr 19 NewsKenya’s economic outlook remains stable amid threats of drought in 2019
Kenya’s real gross domestic product is projected to grow by 5.7% in 2019, a slight decrease from the es...
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27 Mar 19 NewsTunisia has formally ratified its membership of COMESA – becoming its 20th member
Diarise: Transforming Mauritius – policies to foster industrialisation and development. The w...
Hunger on the rise in Africa, new UN report reveals
13 Feb 19 NewsA 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...
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12 Feb 19 NewsA 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...
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07 Feb 19 NewsEconomic 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 NewsAcross 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 BlogFood 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...
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17 Oct 18 NewsAfrican 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 NewsNew 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 News821 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 NewsPresident Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday witnessed the signing of two agreements that will see two US companies invest $238 million worth of projects in Kenya as he urged the US governme...
African Development Bank President Adesina calls for technology transfer to farmers
07 Aug 18 NewsAfrica should be the breadbasket of the world, has no reason spending US$ 35 billion a year importing food, Adesina tells Agriculture conference in U.S.
The President of the ...