September 2025

  • This international collaboration reflects a practical model of Triangular South–South Cooperation in developing sustainable agricultural production systems.
    This international collaboration reflects a practical model of Triangular South–South Cooperation in developing sustainable agricultural production systems.

Abu Dhabi Fund for Development Inaugurates Agricultural Systems Development Project in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan

23 September 2025

The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) inaugurated the Agricultural Production Systems Development Project in Karakalpakstan – Uzbekistan during a high-level field visit to the project sites. 

  • The Dehdoyeajay Cooperative in Neekree Community, Grand Bassa, Liberia has planted a community seedbank of improved cowpeas.
    The Dehdoyeajay Cooperative in Neekree Community, Grand Bassa, Liberia has planted a community seedbank of improved cowpeas.
  • Assorted food and seeds to be used in community seedbank RESADE beneficiaries at village of Kéké-kopé, Togo.
    Assorted food and seeds to be used in community seedbank RESADE beneficiaries at village of Kéké-kopé, Togo.
  • Members of the community seedbank at the Genji Wolof Vegetable Garden with staff from the Gambian National Agricultural Research Institute.
    Members of the community seedbank at the Genji Wolof Vegetable Garden with staff from the Gambian National Agricultural Research Institute.
  • Ndey Jobe, Vice President of the Gengi Wollof Farmer Field School in The Gambia, holding cowpea seedling at the community seedbank at the Genji Wolof Vegetable Garden.
    Ndey Jobe, Vice President of the Gengi Wollof Farmer Field School in The Gambia, holding cowpea seedling at the community seedbank at the Genji Wolof Vegetable Garden.

RESADE supports community seedbanks in six African nations

18 September 2025

Ndey Jobe knows the importance of good seed. The farmer from Gengi Wollof in The Gambia struggles each year to obtain quality seed to sow in her fields. But now her struggles for seed will subside.

Ndey serves as the vice president of the Gengi Wollof Farmer Field School who have now established a community seed bank (CSB). With the assistance of the Gambian National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), the members of the cooperative have learned to process seed and store them so each year quality seed is available.