The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a grant of around $25.65 million to help Zimbabwe enhance domestic food production and supply. The funds were drawn from the Transition Support Facility (TSF), although the Board provided a waiver, to assist  Zimbabwe to mitigate  against a possible food crisis. Zimbabwe is in debt and in arrears and therefore is ineligible for TSF resources.  

Le Conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement a approuvé, le 15 juillet 2022, à Abidjan, l’octroi d’un prêt de 62,99 millions d’euros au Cameroun. Le financement va permettre au pays d’augmenter la production des principales cultures agricoles (riz, maïs, sorgho, mil, soja, pomme de terre, huile de palme et cultures maraichères), afin d’atténuer l’impact de la crise alimentaire qu’entraîne la guerre entre la Russie et l’Ukraine.

Cyriaque Ndagijimana was a modest Rwandan farmer in Bugesera, a district in Eastern Province, Rwanda, known for its many marshes. While he managed TO provide for his family, he was tired of struggling to make ends meet. I wasn't especially poor," he says modestly. “But I couldn't afford to send my three children to school.” ,

The Lanzhou–Chongqing Railway Development Project (the project) was aimed at improving the railway system in the western region by (i) constructing 820 km of railway lines and 31 stations with equipment installed for train operations, and (ii)  strengthening institutional capacity of the proposed project implementing and operating agency. Its target impact was an improved transport system in the region that supported socioeconomic development and the western development strategy.

The African Development Bank will release an additional $27.41 million to implement Phase II of its flagship agricultural initiative, "Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation" (TAAT). The goal is to increase farming households' productivity and incomes by giving them access to climate-resilient technologies in 36 low-income African countries, by 2025.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a grant of $3.5 million from the African Development Fund’s Transition Support Facility as additional financing for a rice value chain transformation project in the Gambia.

Country Report No. 2022/235

The project was approved to address the need for an efficient road subsector in the Philippines. Its target impact was improved accessibility to transport infrastructure and services. The expected outcome was more effective management of the road network in the project area by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
This report validates the completion report's assessment of the project. IED overall assessment: Successful.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Friday approved a $134 million loan for the National Agriculture Growth Scheme – Agro Pocket program in Nigeria to scale up food production and boost livelihood resilience.

In Njombe and other Southern highland regions in Tanzania, one of the difficulties faced by farmers and agro-dealers is having enough fertilizers to adequately meet their farming needs.
Agro-dealer Sady Mwang’onda knows far too well these challenges. As much as he and other agro-dealers would want to supply farmers with more fertilizers, they are challenged by various constraints.,