Grants.gov has announced a new Request for Applications (RFA) for a major component of Feed the Future work: the Agriculture Commercialization and Innovation (AC&I) Activity.  AC &I is a new platform to promote new and innovative partnerships, tools, and methodologies that improve market access for food insecure households in Feed the Future (FtF) countries...

The U.S. Agency for International Development & U.S. Department of Agriculture will be hosting the 2012 International Food Aid & Development Conference May 7-9 at The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri...

Benin Republic President Yayi Boni emerged as the new Chairperson of the African Union. He replaced Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo whose one-year tenure has ended. Mr. Boni’s appointment was one of the highlights of the 18th AU Summit which ended in Addis Ababa on Jan. 30. In a speech, the new Chairperson called on fellow African leaders to strive for stability, security, reinforce continental integration, and promote infrastructure development in order to win the fight against poverty.

Africa's youth unemployment is widely recognised as a potential source of political instability. However, most of the policy proposals for addressing joblessness focus largely on stand-alone skill development efforts. They fail to recognise infrastructure as the motherboard of job creation...

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