Malawis President Lazarus Chakwera has urged the country to transition from largely subsistence farming to industrialised commercial farming, in order to meet the goal of making the country food-sufficient by 2030
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IFAD launches US$67.43mn investment programme for small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced support for a new US$67.43mn investment programme that aims to increase rural incomes for 78,000 vulnerable rural households in Zimbabwe by sustainably transforming the small-scale farming sector
Female leaders to join UN Climate Conference in Glasgow
Female leaders from CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education) will join two important events of the UN Climate Conference COP26 in Glasgow to advocate for global investment in girls’ education and women’s leadership and for a gender and equity lens to be applied to all solutions to the climate crisis
AgriTech start-up teams with JNF to launch research on carob trees
AgriTech start-up CarobWay Ltd and Israel’s oldest environmental arm, the Jewish National Fund (JNF-KKL), have kicked off a research initiative for carob trees across Israel
OFC discusses automation and the future of farming’s workforce
In the recent Oxford Farming Conference’s (OFC) Bitesize series held in partnership with the Institute for Agriculture Management (IAgrM), the labour crisis and what farming’s future workforce might look like were discussed