The Bakoteh Fish Market and Ice Plant in The Gambia has profited nearly US$100mn from its vendors eight months after it began operations in April last year
Investors from The Netherlands have shown interest in Zambia’s underdeveloped poultry sector, reported the Zambia Daily Mail
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved a total funding of US$11.2mn for two projects co-financed with the African Development Bank (AfDB) at the 52nd Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council...
Backed by latest scientific evidence, the report titled 'Bird flu: Only major farm reforms can end it', is urging governments to implement a three-point action plan which includes mass vaccination of...
Bentall Rowlands Storage Systems, one of the world's leading manufacturers of grain silos and storage systems, has launched the new 'BRSS' secondary corporate identity in June 2018
Charge d’Affaires of the Kuwait Embassy in Rome Advisor Salem Al-Zamanan has officially invited Daniel Gustafson Deputy Director-General (DDG) of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to join the Al...
Ghana’s leading agri-commodity company Olam International has completed the acquisition of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)’s cocoa business
Ghana’s minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto said the government is planning to diversify the agriculture sector, in order to generate more revenue for national development...
Besides the 600,000 refugees from Sudan, Niger, Cameroon and Central African Republic who are being hosted by Chad, an additional 300,000 people comprising of internally displaced Chadians are in dire...
Imagindairy, a food-tech company creating milk proteins identical to those from cows, has completed a US$13mn seed round
FAO has launched a massive livestock restocking campaign, targeting vulnerable youth and women in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State
According to a study published in the journal Foods, conducted under the leadership of Josep Peñuelas, CREAF and CSIC researcher, and Jordi Sardans, another CREAF researcher, with contributions from specialists...
The South African Poultry Association (SAPA) welcomed the commitment made by President Zuma, at the State of the Nation address on the 17 June 2014 to the agricultural objectives as...
The World Bank is helping African states benefit from a series of easily-adaptable Brazilian agriculture patterns
Wheat rust, a family of fungal diseases that can cause crop losses of up to 100 percent in untreated susceptible wheat, is making further advances in Europe, Africa, and Asia,...
ProVeg International will discuss the role of animal agriculture at COP23, the latest round of climate talks following the Paris Agreement, which is going to be held from 6-17 November...
A new African Centre of Excellence for sustainable cooling and cold chain based in Rwanda will help get farmers’ produce to market quickly and efficiently – reducing food waste, boosting...
With a national annual import of more than US$337mn, the management of Dangote Sugar Refinery has declared its irrevocable commitment to the Backward Integration Policy (BIP) of the Federal Government...
Leading animal nutrition and feed additive producer BIOMIN has announced its involvement in a four-year, US$11mn EU-backed research consortium effort to address the challenges of pig and poultry production by...
Africa needs to focus on improving its agro-industrialisation, which is important to transforming the cocoa value chain, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB)