Strategy for agricultural transformation in africa

 
In addition to specific efforts ensuring the inclusivity of women, climate resilience, 
and nutrition, the ATA will prioritize the inclusion of smallholders and youth as well as 
the creation of a new generation of farmers.
The AfDB will actively support the 
strengthening of farmer cooperative and union governance and ability to offer financial and 
other farmer services. It will also support creation of stronger linkages with processors and 
buyers across many priority value chains—benefiting member farmers with higher profits for 
their labor, and processors and buyers with more secure, higher-quality supplies of raw 
product. Finally, millions of African youth will participate in agribusiness training and 
incubation centers, thereby gaining in-demand skills for rural and urban agro-processing and 
agro-allied industries, improving employment outcomes, and raising youth interest in 
agriculture as a respectable, commercially-minded profession. 
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In the long-run, the goal is for many of the Bank’s catalytic actions to create 
positive feedback loops in several areas such that the related activities become self-
sustaining
in the absence of further significant AfDB involvement. One significant example is 
in the area of improving the agribusiness environment. While the Bank will dedicate resources 
towards strengthening the capacity of RMCs to develop policies and private sector 
organizations to advocate for more favorable policies, it will do so in the hope that these parties 
will eventually be able to sustain their own activities without as much support. Another 
example is in the area of agricultural finance, where several of the initiatives are intended to 
provide the viability of certain investment and crowd in private sector funding. In these cases, 
once the Bank has helped to establish a credible track record, it should be able to redeploy some 
of the related resources to other areas in need.
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