Sudan, June 8 -- The African Development Bank Group (Bank Group) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have signed a $87 million Boosting Agrifood Systems Resilience in Sudan Project, to strengthen food systems and provide critical support to farmers in areas central to the country's food supply.The four-year project, known as BOOST, is a collaboration between the Bank Group, WFP and partners to help farming communities restore production, reduce post-harvest losses, improve incomes and strengthen linkages to local markets. Launched on 22 May at a ceremony held at the Bank's East Africa Regional Office in Nairobi, the project comes at a critical moment when more than 19 million people in Sudan are facing crisis levels of hunger or worse.BOO...