Since its creation in 2018, the French Agency for the Development of AlUla (Afalula) has been working to “implement a new model of economic and tourism development” in this arid region of northwestern Saudi Arabia, according to its president Gérard Mestrallet. The agency carries out many projects, in close collaboration...
At the beginning of this year 2023, our president Marc Debets was the guest of Bruno Faure on Radio France Internationale (RFI). Very rich exchanges on the challenges the agri-food sector are facing in Africa, supported by radio reports presenting various engaging initiatives in Africa. RFI presents examples of engaging...
Review of the round table on agri-food chains structuring, organized by Apexagri on May 19. Among the key learnings: we must take action now to develop successful agri-food chains in Africa and the Middle East, and there can be no performance without taking into account sustainability criteria. Food sovereignty: the...
On May 19th, the first on site Apexagri event in over two years will take place. We are pleased to organise a morning debate on the development of agricultural sectors, regenerative agriculture and food sovereignty. These are particularly topical issues for the agricultural sector and non-agricultural sectors whose sourcing depends...
APEXAGRI team is proud to have contributed to the creation of a development plan for the meat and livestock sectors in Chad. This project was carried out by our experts alongside, among others, ARISE and the Ministry of Livestock. This plan reaches an overall investment in the sector of 550...
A major challenge for humanity? The COP21 international climate conference held in 2015 saw, 196 States sign the Paris Agreement, pledging to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and maintain global warming below 2°C by 2050. That goal is ambitious but necessary to ensure our ability to feed a growing population while limiting our impact on the climate. To achieve...
Web applications, software, robots, drones …, digital is spreading at high speed on the continent, improving the technico-economic performance of the agricultural sector. Will Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enable Africa to lead its Green Revolution? At the farm level Africa shows the lowest agricultural yields in the world. This...
Blockchain is a transparent, immutable and based on trust technology to store and transfer information. It uses the strength of a network rather than the authority of a third party. Dating back from 2009, this technology sees concrete applications in the agricultural and agri-food sector, in search of better economic...
Apexagri was part of the French President Macron official delegation in Nigeria, and signed its first mission there in this occasion. It becomes the 5th African country in which we are operating projects aiming to build performing agricultural business! We will support a private initiative of agricultural development that aims...
Even if agriculture is a priority for Africa’s development, access to financing remains a key constraint for the sector. Access to finance in the agricultural sector is a sensitive subject, since it gets less than 3% of the total bank loans of the continent, while involving 70% of the labor...