AgribusinessA network of village-level Better Life Farming centres is putting trained advisers within reach of Bangladeshi smallholders, and turning agriculture into a career for graduates who could not find work.
AgrotechAn e-voucher system and a national innovation challenge are pairing Cameroonian startups with farmer groups, in a country where agriculture employs nearly 60 percent of the population.
EnvironmentA World Bank-backed project has rebuilt irrigation and drainage across four regions, improving service on more than 100,000 hectares and putting remote pump controls in the hands of operators.
AgribusinessA new report says Bangladesh spends about a tenth of its public budget on agriculture but concentrates it on subsidies and rice, leaving research, advice, irrigation and market access underfunded.
EnvironmentThe programme aims to lift water conveyance efficiency from 35 percent to at least 70 percent and to benefit more than 450,000 people, with co-financing bringing the first phase past $170 million.
AgribusinessThe national framework aims to improve food and nutrition security for close to three million people by 2030 and to support the creation of more than 2.6 million jobs by 2035.
AgribusinessThe six-year AGROW project is expected to reach up to a million smallholder farmers and to draw an additional $220 million from private agribusiness investment.
LivestockAyelech Tarekegn Mekebo began with a single local cow in 2006; she now supplies 20 litres a day to a cooperative with a refrigerated collection centre, and is paid every ten days.
LivestockA commercial farm in Makueni County grows Maasai love grass for Kenya's 18 million cattle, backed by a World Bank programme that has put $40 million behind ten private ventures linked to pastoralism.
EnvironmentUnder the farmer-led irrigation development programme, farmers choose the system they want and contribute cash towards it, while the government facilitates rather than builds.
