Valmont Industries, a provider of engineered products and services for infrastructure and irrigation equipment and services for agriculture, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Prospera Technologies, a leading...
Food and Agriculture Organisation supports member countries in improving livelihood resilience against threats or crises
Italian agriculture holds a record: it is the most sustainable in the world
Research shows that harnessing plant microbiome – bacteria that live in roots, leaves and soil– can help in creating cleaner, pesticide free agricultural practices
Lesotho will continue to experience devastating droughts and food crises unless there is a dramatic increase in investment in community-level resilience and preparedness
A sericulture research centre has been established at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation in Thika
Farm Africa, a charity that promotes sustainable agricultural practices, strengthens markets and protects the environment in rural eastern Africa, has announced the appointment of NFU president Minette Batters as an...
Cocoa Processing Company (CPC), Ghanaian state-owned manufacturer of chocolates, confectionery and semi-finished cocoa products is eyeing a US$86.7mn loan financing from the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (Badea)...
Allflex, part of the Antelliq Group, has announced that it has acquired Agrident, the German-based agricultural technology company specialising in RFID data capture systems used in process control and animal...
Responding to specific requirements of pig keepers, WEDA Dammann & Westerkamp have come up with hygienic pen walls and modules in a natural wooden look
Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), funded by the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP), is developing a Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) to fight against crop-devastating pest...
The Southern African Agriculture Development Partnership Platform (SAADPP) has been launched in Zambia under the NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF) and the Agri-Business Forum (ABF)
Seed n Sow, a London-based startup, is empowering individuals to attain self-sufficiency with their organic, eco-friendly, non-GMO and pesticide-free vegetable and herb seeds
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has unveiled a strategic roadmap of projects and programmes to assist African countries in tackling the nutrition and food security aspects of the COVID-19 crisis...
Premier Fishing and Brands Limited, one of the leading fishing companies in South Africa, has achieved a profit increase by 14 per cent and profit after tax increase by 59...
Wefarm, the digital network for global small-scale agriculture, has raised US$13mn in a Series A financing round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm True Ventures
DOB Equity, one of the leading Dutch family-backed impact investors in East Africa, has announced further investment in Tanga Fresh, dairy processor in Tanzania
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has agreed on cattle breeding rules, its first on livestock production, according to a report by Reuters
According to the latest report from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), consumer price index (CPI) inflation rose by 6.6% y-o-y in August, basically unchanged from the revised figure...
FruitSpec, a portfolio company of The Trendlines Group, has completed successful field studies with its solution for fruit yields estimates and projections