AgribusinessA World Bank Group report released on June 29, 2026 estimated that an extra US$12 billion a year for water-efficient irrigation and farm innovation, with policy reform, could help create 5 million jobs in the region by 2050 and lift cereal yields by 72 percent.
AgribusinessGuinea and the World Bank Group launched the Guinea AgriConnect Compact in Conakry on April 30, 2026, prioritising rice and poultry to cut imports, maize and soybeans as inputs, and fonio and mangoes for export, with hundreds of thousands of jobs targeted by 2030.
AgribusinessThe Government of Senegal and the World Bank Group launched the AgriConnect Senegal Compact in Dakar on February 10, 2026. Focused on grains, horticulture and livestock, it aims by 2029 for more than 90 percent food security, 800,000 formal jobs and 100 farm cooperatives.
