Andre Laperrière, executive director of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) has highlighted the importance of sustainable farming practices to deal with global food security issues

A digital agricultural commodity trading and logistics platform, Agrorite.com has been introduced to help Nigerian smallholder farmers to sell their farming products to local and international buyers at fair and competitive prices

Desert Locust summer breeding, amplified by heavy rains, can pose a serious threat to agricultural production areas of Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia and northern Somalia during the next three months, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Lean farming has the power to make agricultural operations more effective and improve profit margins – but it requires a radical shift in thinking, said Conor Colgan, farmer and business consultant who has spent the last 10 years pioneering lean farming methods as a result of his MBA Masters Thesis