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FAO, others validate CAPIMR on soaring food prices

The United Nation Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in close collaboration with partners WFP, IFAD and the World Bank, yesterday, held a day’s validation workshop on the Country Action Plan Identification Mission Report (CAPIMR) on the soaring food prices, at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi. The objective of the joint inter-agency mission assessment programme is to share, review and validate its finding with the aim to ensure that all stakeholder’s reach an agreement on the findings. ...

KENYA: Financing boost for small farmers

Smallfarmers and agricultural enterprises are the main beneficiaries of afinancing partnership launched on 6 May to help them break out ofpoverty and commercialise farming. "We must insulate ourpeople from the indignity of hunger and starvation," James Mwangi, thechief executive officer of Equity Bank, one of the partners in thedeal, said in Nairobi at the launch of "Kilimo Biashara"(Commercialising Farming). According to the Alliance for aGreen Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the partnership...

Banking on Villagers - The Gambia: Rural Finance and Community Initiatives Project

Since the mid 80s, IFAD’s driving force in The Gambia has been in funding rural micro-finance projects. Linked closely with rural finance, is IFAD’s support to the expansion of agricultural production through technological transfer. Together, they would enhance household food security through income diversification in a country where agriculture accounts for 40% of GDP. In this two-pronged approach, IFAD’s Rural Finance and Community Initiatives Project (RFCIP) supported the already established...