by josiahmwd | Jun 12, 2018 | Events
This week, our CEO Richard Lackey was invited to speak at the Devex World Conference on the topic of New Funding Models for global food systems. He presented on the topic of Scaling Agricultural Value Chains with Innovative Financing Models, speaking specifically...
by josiahmwd | Jun 9, 2018 | International
For the past 60 years, the population of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has grown by 11 million people per year. The World Bank estimates that this region could be home to more than 2.7 billion people by 2060. This rapid growth presents both challenges and opportunities....
by josiahmwd | May 24, 2018 | Key Sectors
In Sub-Saharan Africa, irrigation is severely underutilized, with estimates showing that only 4 percent of land in the region is under irrigation. At the World Food Bank, one of our main goals is to help farmers increase their farming outputs, their incomes, and their...
by josiahmwd | May 22, 2018 | News
Recently, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) released a report titled, “The Financial Performance of Impact Investing through Private Debt,” which finds that private debt currently makes up the largest asset class in impact investing, according to...
by josiahmwd | May 17, 2018 | News, World Food Bank Team
Our CEO Richard Lackey recently returned from Washington, D.C., where he spent two days this month attending his first meetings as an official member of BIFAD (the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development). Richard was recently appointed to serve as a...
