AfDB’s Feed Africa to produce additional 120 metric tonnes of food annually

As the African Development Bank (AfDB) commences the implementation of it “Feed Africa” initiative aim at transform agriculture is estimated to lead to 120 million tons of additional raw food production per year and will contribute to lifting about 40 million people out of poverty.
The programme is expected to scale up agribusiness opportunity throughout 18 key agricultural commodity value chains, the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) support The strategy involves increased crop and animal productivity, value addition, investment in infrastructure, creating an enabling agribusiness environment, catalyzing capital flows, and ensuring inclusivity, sustainability, and nutritional security in a coordinated manner.
Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT), supports Feed Africa by providing the needed, proven agricultural and food processing technologies and implementation  strategies for inclusion within the Bank’s loans to Regional Member Countries (RMCs).
TAAT’s approaches revitalize and transform agriculture while restoring degraded land and maintaining or strengthening the ecosystems that underpin agriculture, while modernizing and more fully commercializing agriculture.
Investments in TAAT will be greatly compounded by much larger loans/ grants awarded to RMCs through Feed Africa, the Bank-financed Country programs, and the World Bank as well as AGRA programs.
It has been estimated that overall TAAT will lead to 120 million tons of additional raw food production per year and will contribute to lifting about 40 million people out of poverty.
TAAT is essentially a knowledge- and innovationbased response to the recognized need for scaling up proven technologies across Africa.
It is a Regional Technology Delivery Infrastructure (RTDI) made up of CGIAR Centers, National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS), represented by their continental umbrella, the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), and subregional organizations (SROs), with an emphasis on agroecological zones and their priority commodities.
The principal implementation units of TAAT are Commodity Technology Delivery Compacts (CTDC), a platform of all actors in the seed, primary production, and primary processing components of agricultural commodity value chains.
Clearinghouse is the decision making body of the RDTI when it comes to selecting which technologies to disseminate and scale up.
The objective of the Clearinghouse is to decide which proven agricultural technologies proposed by each Crop/Livestock compact group can be rolled out and taken to scale

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