Agriculture

Aware of the premium on value-added exports, the government of Burkina Faso between 2014 and 2018 partnered with the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) to improve the drying and certification process of dried mangos for export. The project has been key to slowly but firmly pushing the country towards modernizing its agro-processing businesses – and juicing up its exports.
24 May 2022 - Marie-France Boucher
In 2015, Togo produced less than 25,000 tons of soybeans. Since then, production increased five-fold to more than 200,000 tons in 2021. How did this happen?
5 May 2022 - Ratnakar Adhikari
The impact of the war in Ukraine on food and fuel prices will weaken economies already battered by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate-related disasters.
22 March 2022 - Marie-France Boucher
Supporting farmers and agricultural cooperatives in a post-conflict context is not what funders of international aid often consider a safe bet. But turning swords into ploughs can pave a sustainable path out of conflict for communities, as results from a project supported by the Enhanced Integrated Framework in four districts of the country show.
19 August 2021
The multimillion-dollar shea industry is booming in French-speaking Africa. With the right support, there is a lot of room for the sector to grow and for rural women to benefit.
19 August 2021
French-speaking Africa is home to high-value agricultural products. EIF is working with producers and processors to make sure they can meet national and global market demands.
19 August 2021
French-speaking Africa has a lot of potential for trade. Find out what sectors have the most promise.
8 April 2021 - Deanna Ramsay
Getting organic certification for shea can be a journey
18 February 2021 - Aadesh Subedi
Originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:30 GMT
11 February 2021
Originally published by International Trade Centre on 3rd February 2021
2 February 2021 - Deanna Ramsay
The quiet outside the nondescript warehouse belies what is happening inside. Machines whir, and halls and walls are piled high with filled sacks of sesame, of chickpeas, of mung beans.
26 January 2021 - Deanna Ramsay
Guinea trying out south-south cooperation venture with Tunisia Trade in Guinea today centres mostly around the export of gold and bauxite, which is used to create aluminum. The country has the world’s largest deposits of the red rock, and aluminum prices are increasing.
19 January 2021 - Deanna Ramsay
A fresh style of training for agriculturalists addresses topics from creativity to financial literacy
5 January 2021 - Deanna Ramsay
Trainings in beekeeping and the provision of hives aims to create additional income sources for agriculturalists Beekeeping doesn’t come naturally, really. 
For smallholder farmers and processors in LDCs, cotton by-products could provide additional income as they adjust to COVID-19 and other exogenous factors impacting world lint prices
Rice plays a strategic role in food security in West Africa, but the region increasingly relies on imports, and local value chains face constraints in terms of technology, finance and coordination. 
24 November 2020 - Dr. Karishma Banga
The government of Uganda put containment measures in place to tackle COVID-19. These included quarantines; bans on public gatherings and weekly markets; closures of schools, borders and nonessential retail outlets; and the suspension of international flights.
24 September 2020 - Marlynne Hopper
COVID-19 is highlighting the interconnectedness of agri-food trade; and work needs to be done to mobilise action to build safe food systems
18 August 2020
Biruktawit Begashaw started her own export company, Qine Trading, five years ago in Addis Ababa. Her business got a boost after attending Gulfood in Dubai, sponsored through Ethiopia’s Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Enhanced Integrated Framework.
18 August 2020 - Deanna Ramsay
For a new business owner, one international trade fair got things rolling
Food products comprise around 17% of LDC merchandise imports – more than double the world average of 8%.
16 July 2020 - Sophia Gnych
OECD’s Seed Schemes are working to protect food systems globally, with important benefits for least developed countries
16 June 2020 - Michelle Kovacevic
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFRPRI) Senior Research Fellow discusses the challenges and opportunities for food security in least developed countries amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
14 May 2020
Tewodros Yilma of Alpha Trading in Ethiopia discusses his business processing and exporting agricultural products, the role of trade fairs and his plans for the future.
14 May 2020 - Deanna Ramsay
Finding new buyers and tapping new markets, harnessing agriculture’s potential
22 April 2020 - Kai Hughes
Information access via tech could increase yields and incomes for cotton farmers in Africa
SDG 2 commits governments to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, with five specific targets setting the level and ambition of this goal.
25 February 2020 - Deliby Chimbalu
To get international buyers, Malawi businesses tackling marketing and certifications
13 February 2020 - Mischa Tripoli
Agriculture 4.0, fuelled by innovation and technology, is driving more productive, efficient and sustainable food systems.
17 December 2019 - Deanna Ramsay
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Senior Research Fellow discusses agriculture-based economies and how the current US-China trade situation is affecting the world’s poor
New report delves into the trade data on agriculture on the continent, finding positive trends, points of concern and suggestions for the future
Investment mobilization and technology transfers could increase incomes, and enable value addition
25 September 2019 - Deanna Ramsay
The tiny West African country The Gambia is striving to export its crops globally.
16 September 2019 - Deanna Ramsay Michelle Kovacevic
Cooperative endeavor to enhance exports yields solid solutions
19 August 2019 - Deanna Ramsay
Government plus grassroots combo laying foundations for MSME success
5 August 2019 - Michelle Kovacevic
Making more and better ginger crops means more income
29 July 2019
Noah's Ark owner Samuel Musoke discusses his small business and what he needs to succeed from Masaka District in Uganda.
10 July 2019 - Deliby Chimbalu
New buyers means employment opportunities and much much more
Skills strategies can provide a bridging mechanism to enable disadvantaged groups such as youth and women to gain from international trade.
Conquering a nut pollutant means lives and livelihoods saved in the process
9 April 2019 - Michelle Kovacevic
Bhutan’s potato ‘stock market’ goes online
Country is diversifying into soy, and farmers are seeing profits
LUANG PRABANG – 11 MARCH 2019 – Lao PDR’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MOIC) and the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) have officially launched a new effort to increase the country’s exports and support investments in business development.
4 February 2019 - Michelle Kovacevic
Implementation is everything in aligning trade and agriculture in LDCs in Africa
15 October 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
Increasing agricultural proceeds, processing and marketing are critical in Malawi’s development plans
17 September 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
Strategic alliances and alignments are key to making trade in agriculture work, for all
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In some of the most impoverished countries in the world, agriculture is the backbone of the economy
31 August 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
In The Gambia, family-owned cashew processors are primed for expansion
29 August 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
Island nation focusing on its unique, specialty plant life to kick start economic growth
27 August 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
Malawians are forging new markets for their agricultural exports, within and without Africa
26 August 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
And the government and NASFAM are searching out even more markets for the country's agricultural production, looking to trade with neighboring countries and to Europe with processed items.
24 August 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
The country is striving to enhance agro-processing, secure new markets and increase exports
18 August 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
When agriculture and trade align, change happens for incomes and economies
14 August 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
With cashew prices surging and armed with solid trade policy, the country is looking to boost its farmers and processors
13 August 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
In Comoros, an essential oils doyenne has plans for her country’s unique yields
9 August 2018
Malawi's farmers have been cultivating new crops with the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi, supported by the Government of Malawi and EIF
9 August 2018
The Gambia has been working across its supply chain to enhance trade in the country
8 August 2018
EIF is the only multilateral partnership working to support trade for development in the world's poorest countries. Check out how we are doing this, on the ground, with our partners, together with governments, always for development, always for the Least Developed Countries.
24 July 2018
The ylang-ylang, vanilla and cloves that grow in Comoros are being used to spur economic growth, with young entrepreneurs leading the way
23 July 2018
Inclusive and sustainable agribusiness value chains can provide one of the highest returns on investment in terms of growth, poverty reduction, pro-poor employment, and women's economic empowerment in LDCs.
In a country with a majority of the population cultivating small plots of land, empowering smallholder farmers is the key to economic success
14 May 2018 - Elena Immambocus
A new book on sanitary and phytosanitary gaps from the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) highlights ways to support farmers, processors, traders and governments in developing countries to access global markets
11 April 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
Additional land to sow, targeted trainings, and market security mean higher incomes for smallholders
(MASERU/GENEVA) March 9, 2018 – The Kingdom of Lesotho is continuing to invest in agro-processing for its farmers: A brand new horticultural market centre will allow them to better preserve their fruits and vegetables and receive prompt payments for their products.
9 March 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
Just-launched facility offers state-of-the-art services, and promises to boost business
18 February 2018
“Coconuts are both culturally and economically important to Samoans,” says Alberta Vitale, Associate Director of Samoa’s Women in Business Development Incorporated (WIBDI).
13 February 2018
Burkina Faso’s cashew industry is in the midst of a drastic makeover.
13 February 2018 - Michelle Kovacevic
Burkina Faso's cashew sector has been re-made, as a matter of national priority.
24 January 2018 - UNCTAD
Two dozen Beninese women making a unique type of garri flour sign up to a new code of practice to better market their product and boost incomes
23 January 2018
Project strengthens value chains of vanilla, clove and ylang ylang in the Union of the Comoros Originally posted at ITC News
26 November 2017 - Annette Mutaawe Ssemuwemba
Aminata Dominique Diouf was seven years old when her father bought a small farm 15 minutes from the Senegal-Gambia border.
Chandra and her 25 colleagues from her women's association take a break from the day's farming business to hold a meeting on their ginger business prospects and the stiff market competition they face with India's value-added ginger.