As Internet access has broadened in Africa, technology firms have been able to reach an ever wider audience
Khaled Sherif, vice-president of African Development Bank (AfDB), announced new investment strategies like providing high-yielding seeds and making large farms more productive to boost up Africa’s agriculture sector during the...
Food security in Kenya has been threatened by a maize crop disease that has destroyed the entire season's harvest in the South Rift Valley
The Namibian minister of agriculture, John Mutorwa, has said that investment in agricultural research can address sustainable food production issues worldwide
Johnvents Industries Limited, a Nigerian agribusiness firm, has commissioned its upgraded US$36mn cocoa processing plant in Akure, Ondo State
Ugachick Poultry Breeders Limited revamps poultry industry in Uganda through production of day-old chicks, high quality animal feeds and other poultry products
International Organization for Migration (IOM) organised several training courses for close to 100 community members in the municipalities of Dirkou, Djado, Fachi and Bilma in the Kawar region
New Holland Agriculture and The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, has announced a new partnership that will extend and develop a portfolio of data sharing capabilities to help...
Pierre Durand, head of IT and innovation at agricultural services company AFGRI Agri Services, in recent conversation with Ahmed Mahomed, CEO, Datacentrix, explained that when it comes to technologies such...
The World Bank announced that it will invest US$1bn to support agricultural projects in Angola linked to water resources and irrigation
The International Egg Foundation (IEF) has released a practical manual to help upcoming commercial egg producers in developing nations
PML Kenya has invested US$300,000 in a new vacuum cooler system designed to provide customers with an affordable and highly efficient temperature control measure to improve cool chain management
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has engaged in pest-control measures in Niger and Mali where farmers have been facing up to the imminent prospect of a desert locust invasion
With the launch of the Economic Stimulus Program (EPS) two years ago to boost food security and spur long-term development in rural areas, fish farming has become a major beneficiary...
Olam International Ltd and Rainforest Alliance have teamed up to produce the world’s first “climate-friendly cocoa” in Ghana as part of their ongoing collaboration
Jean Baptiste Musabyimana, managing director, Abusol, addressed VIV Europe on the investment opportunities of Africa as a whole with an emphasis on Rwanda
US$10mn IFAD loan and grant to Lesotho to increase agricultural production by small farmers
The World Bank announced on 20 March that a US$100 million project to support better management of forests, rangelands and agricultural landscapes for more jobs and increased incomes in the...
Ghana is stepping up its commitment to help end deforestation due to cocoa farming, by partnering with Ecometrica, the downstream space and sustainability company
The contribution by NORAD will greatly support the African Emergency Food Production Facility. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
