AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoClimate Resilience: The World Bank added $500 million to northern Nigeria’s land-restoration and rural-livelihoods programme, which aims to reach 6.6 million people and restore 1.4 million hectares by 2031. Farm Finance and Markets: IFC-backed Senegalese firm Tolbi plans to extend digital advice, financing and market access to 2 million farmers and cooperatives by 2030. In Honduras, $101.68 million in IDB funding will improve roads linking farming communities to markets. Food Production: IFC is providing up to $10 million more to Kyrgyz poultry producer Adal Azyk for a feed mill and broiler farm, bringing support for its expansion to $20 million. Costs and Food Prices: Pakistan approved raising the discounted rate on additional electricity use by agricultural consumers to Rs25.30 per unit from November. FAO’s food price index fell 1.2% in October but remained 5.9% above a year earlier; it warned that conflict-related energy and transport disruptions threaten food logistics. Farm Innovation: Researchers developed food-grade microneedles to deliver vaccines to farmed fish, potentially helping prevent costly disease outbreaks.
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