More than 100 delegates from nine African countries took part in a recent three-day technical school organised by Cobb Africa
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has launched a new initiative - Farmer Organisations Support Centre in Africa (FOSCA) - to support various farmer organisations in Ghana...
Accelerated degradation of land and water resources, deforestation and biodiversity loss put Tanzania’s development goals at risk, according to a World Bank report
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a US$41mn agreement with Republic of Sudan to finance a public sector agriculture value chain development project in the country
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa quashes ban report that government had imposed a ban on quail bird farming by locals for commercial purposes
The UN World Food Programme's (WFP) strong food-purchasing power and logistics capacity has been attempting to enhance local agricultural production in order to benefit smallholder farmers in Sudan
The Regional Centre of Excellence for Poultry Science (CERSA), University of Lome, and World Poultry Science Association (WPSA-Togo branch) are co-organising the second edition of the Pan-African Poultry Conference (PPC)...
The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has launched a US$4.96mn project in Uganda to benefit more than 350,000 smallholder farmers
AGCO brand Massey Ferguson has launched three new cab tractor models in its MF 4700 series
Rothamsted Research scientists have demonstrated that common farming practices drain the soil of carbon, altering the structure of soils’ microscopic habitat and the genetics of microbes living within it
The government of Belgium has contributed US$500,000 through SFERA, to FAO’s project which aims to benefit as many as 11,000 households (55,000 people) in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Investments in agriculture and rural development are more susceptible to failure when social circumstances affecting livelihoods and food security are not taken into consideration, a new publication from the Food...
Airtel Africa and the GSMA have initiated a project that will attempt to provide more than 250,000 Kenyan farmers with agricultural information via their mobile phones
Bayer and Fair Planet have renewed its commitment to the ‘Bridging the Seed Gap’ project for five years, aiming to improve food and nutrition security, provide economic opportunities for smallholder...
Thirteen ventures, including the ones in Africa, are the recipients of around US$13mn in funding from the Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development (PAEGC) programme
Poultry sector is accelerating development in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Ghana, contributing significantly to the GDP growth in the countries, said the poultry industry leaders
New Hope Liuhe Company Limited (NHLCL), an agribusiness company from China, has expressed its desire to invest in the sector’s development in Nigeria
The global agricultural machinery market is expected to continue its positive phase after posting strong growth in 2020 and further increase in 2021
Zambia’s top wheat-producing company Zambeef expects to generate 45,000 tonnes of the crop this year, with its Mpongwe farm contributing more than 50 per cent of the production