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In Togo, women play an essential role in agricultural production. However, their involvement in processing, trading and entrepreneurial activities remains marginalised. This…

ECOWAS organised a side event on "Increasing Investment for Rice Self-Sufficiency in West Africa: Opportunities and Challenges" on 3 September, in partnership with the AfDB…

ECOWAS's agricultural policy (ECOWAP) is implemented around five key themes, including the strengthening of food and nutritional resilience, security and sovereignty.…

The 4th meeting of the Regional Trade Facilitation Committee examined the implementation of trade facilitation reforms under the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) and…

As part of the implementation of the Agricultural Trade and Markets Scorecard for West Africa and the Sahel (EATM-SCORECARD) in Ghana, Niger, Sierra Leone, Chad and…

As part of the activities relating to the sustainability and adaptation of the productive base of the West Africa Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP),…

The ECOWAS Commission, through its rice sector coordination mechanism and its multi-stakeholder platform of actors and partners, the ECOWAS Rice Observatory (ERO), in…

The onion sector is booming in Burkina Faso, especially in the target regions of the Burkina Faso Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP-BF). Overall, however, poor farming…

Over 70% of Sierra Leone's farming population is found in rural areas, mainly engaged in rain-fed subsistence farming with less than one hectare of land. Given this scale of…

On 17 March 2025, Chad's Ministry of Agricultural Production and Industrialisation was the scene of an event of great importance for the region's agricultural and food…