Agriculture accounts for about 60 per cent of Africa's active labour force, contributes 17 per cent of the continent's total gross domestic product and accounts for 40 per cent of...
Roxell, one of the leading manufacturers of automated animal feeding, drinking, nesting and heating systems, has announced to expand its range of convection heaters for poultry houses with the Siroc...
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
Startup business, eHempHouse has announced that it has filed two patents relating to Smartbox, a hemp processing machine that can be used off-grid, and will supply power
Nigerian agribusiness group, Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN), is planning to invest about US$1bn in its business over the next five years
A contribution of fish that are high in protein, vitamins, and minerals, mackerel are being supplied by government of Japan (WFP) to 270,000 pupils in the most food-insecure regions, supported by...
Olam International, in partnership with Agropolis Fondation, is searching for ground-breaking scientific research that can deliver transformational impacts within global agriculture and win a US$75,000 grant to support development and...
Ghana’s cocoa regulator, Cocobod, has signed a US$1.8bn loan with international banks to finance purchases for the 2015/16 season
The Zimbabwean government has announced it has delivered more than 60 tractors to farmers in Mashonaland West and Central provinces under the Zunde Ramambo programme to enhance food security in...
The recent opening of the Sahara Forest Project (SFP) launch station outside Aqaba, the Jordan port city, has highlighted the possibility of using some of the world’s harshest landscapes to...
Nigerian minister of science and technology Ogbonnaya Onu has announced that the federal government has developed a home-grown pesticide to fight the tomato pest – Tuta Absoluta – which has...
President Muhammadu Buhari advised West and Central African countries to engage youth for agricultural development to help meet demands of the rising population
The President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Kanayo Nwanze, has called for smallholder farmers from across Africa to be placed at the centre of sector exchanges in order to...
A joint initiative between Norway and Ghana has been announced to develop the latter’s aquaculture sector through transfer of Norwegian fish farming knowledge and technology
Bühler has announced the launch of PolyCool 1000, a high-performance cooling die that together with an extruder, provides an efficient and flexible solution for food producers creating tasty and sustainable...
Informal irrigation arrangements used by local Malawian farmers’ groups have been far more successful than top-down projects piloted by development agencies at improving farmers’ livelihoods, and have increased the amount...
Pöttinger has unveiled SYNKRO stubble cultivators and TERRADISC compact disc harrows for modern stubble cultivation
Ghana has announced to offer 50mn free cocoa seedlings and bags of fertiliser to farmers to help improve their yield and income
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and other collaborators have produced a new set of maps that will provide farmers in Africa and outside the continent detailed information on pigs,...