The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and its partners has issued £3.6mn to fund a disease surveillance programme to reduce the incidence of diseases transmitted between people and livestock in western Kenya

Members of the Gambia Women Farmers Association (GAWFA) were given a loan of US$57,000 to increase their working capacity

The African Farmers Workshop and Expo (AFWE) will take place from 12-14 August 2014 at the Johannesburg Expo Centre

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is warning nations to step up monitoring, reporting and prevention of Fusarium wilt, the world’s most destructive banana disease that has in recent years spread from Asia to Africa and the Middle East