The Westfalia Fruit Group has unveiled three innovative environmental and social projects at its fruit processing plant in South Africa’s KwaZulu Natal province, enhancing sustainability and helping local communities in the process
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Gambia-Korea partnership seeks to double rice production to curb food insecurity
President Adama Barrow has received a delegation led by the Korean Ambassador to The Gambia, HE Kim Ji-Joon, at the State House in Banjul to announce the delivery of sample rice seeds to increase rice production in the country
World Sustainability Organization chooses Zambia as the first African Sustainability Hub
The World Sustainability Organization and Foundation (WSO&F) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Zambian Government, to make Zambia the African Sustainability Hub
Farmers and agribusinesses in Uganda to receive more than US$5mn to become climate resilient
The Government of the Republic of Korea, through its development agency Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and the International Trade Centre (ITC) will provide funding to support ITC in boosting competitiveness for farming households and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the cassava, shea and oilseed value chains in Uganda
Pest management restores Africa’s mango markets
The Alien Invasive Fruit Flies project in Southern Africa, supported by the International Development Research Centre and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, has come up with five technologies as part of an integrated pest management (IPM) package to counter the devastating effects of fruit flies