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Zambia was hit by a severe drought in 2024, resulting in big challenges for access to food and nutrition. As part of efforts to foster collaboration and enhance the implementation of sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural projects, the Agri-Business Facility for Africa (ABF), organised an event dubbed “MAP Day” for Multi-Actors Partnerships in Zambia on November 5th, 2024.

From the bustling streets of Accra to the agricultural heart of Techiman, and further to the peaceful, mountainous terrain of Kwahu, the Agri-Business Facility for Africa (ABF) project embarked on a four-week Agribusiness e-Academy Road Tour garnering, over 500 young people across Ghana in October.

The Agri-Business Facility for Africa (ABF) is excited to announce that the “Value Chains in a Nutshell” online course is now available in English as part of the Agribusiness e-Academy on atingi.

Accra, Ghana: Picture a world where women in agribusiness are unstoppable, boldly transforming the landscape with their ideas, resilience, and vision. In pursuit of this inspiring vision the Agri-Business Facility for Africa (ABF) and MOVE-ComCcashew organized an intensive Training of Trainers (ToT) for 25 women agripreneurs on Gender makes Business Sense Plus (GmBS+). This transformative ToT took place from August 19-28, 2024, in Accra, Ghana.

Benin, Cotonou. Since 9 September 2024, 39 experts from 15 countries have been meeting at the Azalai Hotel. An overwhelming 438 proposals reached the Business Support Facility for Resilient Agricultural Value Chains project on 18 August 2024 from the third call, seeking innovative concept notes for the cocoa, cashew, livestock, and maize value chains in ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) countries.

After months of anticipation, we are thrilled to announce the kick-off of the first Matching Grant Fund projects’ implementation.

Jointly with you, we would like to bring this expertise together for further scaling of successful approaches to push the borders of growth for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) in African, Caribbean and Pacific states operating in agricultural production, processing and services.

After over a hundred intriguing and hands-on team-building activities, ABF team fondly described their moods as "sunlight and rainbow," a testament to the positive energy and colorful interactions that characterized the time together.

An event connecting partners after the World Cocoa Conference 2024.

As of today, we reached 20,000 enrollments in the e-learning courses of our Agribusiness e-Academy on atingi.org.

We are very excited to announce the launch of the Business Model Canvas for Agribusinesses course on our Agribusiness e-Academy. Join now!

13th December, Accra Ghana. ABF signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF).

From 23rd October to 3rd November, the Farmer Business School (FBS) Coordinator Dalila Dalhoumi from Tunisia travelled to Mali for her first Ambassador Mission. The following objectives were met: Strengthening the exchange in the FBS Trainer network, getting to know each other for potential cooperation and exchange of best practices and jointly discussing how the FBS training can be used more intensively e.g. also within the framework of the Matching Grant Fund offered by the Agri-Business Facility for Africa.

All in all, the mission led to very insightful and fruitful discussions and exchanges.

13th November, 2023. On 10th November at 11:59 pm GMT, the Call for Concept Notes within the framework of the Matching Grant Fund (MGF) for resilient agricultural value chains – in this call for cocoa, maize, cattle, sheep, and goats – has been closed. An impressive 426 Concept Notes have been handed in by interested potential partners and consortia.

Johannesburg, South Africa, 11^th of September 2023. The Business Support Facility for Resilient Agricultural Value Chains (ABF4VC) kicked-off the first Master Trainer Network Conference titled “Agribusiness is my learning journey”. The Conference is hosted by the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD. The experts for successful agribusiness training approaches such as the Farmer Business School (FBS) come together for exchanges, updates, and strengthening an already strong network to further boost African agricultural sectors.