African Development Bank (ADB) and the Ivory Coast signed February 2017 in Abidjan, 107 million (70 billion FCFA) financing agreements. This, for three agricultural projects aimed at developing the agro-industrial and banking fabric in Ivory Coast, while promoting youth employment and the involvement of women, through the intensive use of new technologies . These projects are part of the strategy of the ADB to initiate the transformation, modernization and competitiveness of African agriculture.

The agro-industrial cluster project in the region Aries (2PAI ARIES) assumes the lion`s share, with € 101 million (FCFA 66 billion) granted - via a commercial loan of € 64.36 million (42 billion FCFA) a concessional loan of € 32.9 million (FCFA 22 billion) and a grant of € 4.3 million (FCFA 2.8 billion).

The value chain development project in the region of Indénié-Djuablin (PDC-ID) received funding of € 5 million (FCFA 3.3 billion) allocated the resources of the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF ), one of the three entities constituting the Bank Group.

Finally, ADB also granted an advance of € 1.3 million (829 million FCFA) to conduct studies prior to the implementation of youth employment project in agribusiness (Enable Youth).