Ore Koren, a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota in Political Science and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Dickey Center at Dartmouth College, talks to Ebin Gheevarghese, Editor, African Farming about the strange correlation between food abundance and violent conflict in Africa
Agriculture
TradeMark East Africa and Uganda trade ministry renew efforts to empower women in trade
More than 4,776 women in Uganda and 25,000 women across East Africa have directly benefited from a TradeMark East Africa (TMEA) women and trade programme since 2015
Strathmore University, Kenya, starts agribusiness course for students
AGCO, Your Agriculture Company, one of the leading manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipments across the globe, has launched the new AGCO Agribusiness Qualification (AAQ) at Strathmore University in Kenya
Conflicts and inclement weather hurt food security in Africa
High levels of food insecurity persist in the world, due largely to conflicts and to adverse climatic shocks, particularly in East African and Near East countries, where large numbers of people continue to be in need of humanitarian assistance, a new FAO report said
Nigeria on the verge of doing away with rice importation: Lai Mohammed
The fact that Nigeria has been able to cut down on rice importation from 644,000 MT to about 22,000 MT within two years proves the agricultural revolution is working, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said