Financing Africa’s Green and Blue Revolutions

AFRICA PROGRESS REPORT 2014

GRAIN FISH MONEY.

Financing Africa’s Green and Blue Revolutions

Africa Progress Panel, Geneva, Switzerland

May 2014, 180 pages

The annual Africa Progress Report is the flagship publication of the Africa Progress Panel. Published every year in May, the report draws on the best research and analysis available on Africa and compiles it in a refreshing and provocative manner. Through the report, and as part of its overall mission of promoting transformative change in Africa, the Panel makes viable, policy recommendations for African policy makers who have responsibility for Africa’s progress, and for international partners and civil society organizations.

To sustain growth that improves the lives of all Africans, the continent needs an economic transformation that taps into Africa’s other riches: its fertile land, its extensive fisheries and forests, and the energy and ingenuity of its people. The Africa Progress Report 2014 describes what such a transformation would look like, and how Africa can get there.

Agriculture must be at the heart that transformation. Most Africans, including the vast majority of Africa’s poor, continue to live and work in rural areas, principally as smallholder farmers. In the absence of a flourishing agricultural sector, the majority of Africans will be cut adrift from the rising tide of prosperity.

To achieve such a transformation, Africa will need to overcome three major obstacles: a lack of access to formal financial services, the weakness of the continent’s infrastructure and the lack of funds for public investment.
The Africa Progress Report 2014 describes how African governments and their international partners can cooperate to remove those obstacles – and enable all Africans to benefit from their continent’s extraordinary wealth.

8 May 2014. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. LAUNCH OF THE 2014 AFRICA PROGRESS REPORT: GRAIN FISH MONEY.
MOLO, (SOURCE - AFRICA PROGRESS PANEL). Chaired by Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, the ten-member Africa Progress Panel advocates at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. The Panel releases its flagship publication, the Africa Progress Report, every year in May.

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