{"id":237348,"date":"2026-06-25T05:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-world-bank-approves-40-million-to-boost-agricultural-value-chains-and-job-creation-in-sierra-leone\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:38:59","slug":"africa-world-bank-approves-40-million-to-boost-agricultural-value-chains-and-job-creation-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-world-bank-approves-40-million-to-boost-agricultural-value-chains-and-job-creation-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: World Bank Approves $40 Million to Boost Agricultural Value Chains and Job Creation in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Washington \u2014 The World Bank Group today approved a $40 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to support the <em>Sustainable Agricultural Value-chains Intensification for Growth (SAVIG)<\/em> project in Sierra Leone. The project aims to enhance productivity and private investment, and create jobs in select agricultural value chains, contributing to the country&#8217;s broader economic transformation and food security goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\">Agriculture remains the backbone of Sierra Leone&#8217;s economy, employing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606230017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2014 The World Bank Group today approved a $40 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to support the Sustainable Agricultural Value-chains Intensification for Growth (SAVIG) project in Sierra Leone. The project aims to enhance productivity and private investment, and create jobs in select agricultural value chains, contributing to the country&#8217;s broader economic transformation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,8375,8326,7089,6557,28497,11743,9679,6572,5118,257,6571,1135,254,5093],"class_list":["post-237348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agricultural","tag-approves","tag-bank","tag-boost","tag-chains","tag-creation","tag-job","tag-leone","tag-million","tag-news","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}