First Quantum Minerals (FQM) will recruit more than 1,000 Zambian farmers into modern conservation farming by 2015 with the aim of improving food security in the country's North-Western Province

The Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) has set aside US$11mn dollars for loan distribution to Kenyan farmers as part of attempts to boost food production in the country

A US$1.2bn fertiliser plant is to be set up in Nigeria by a subsidiary of Indorama Corporation, and will become the world's largest urea manufacturing complex

South Africa's Western Cape Provincial Government has responded to fears of significant farming job losses by stressing the need to explore new export markets for the province's wine and fruit

Zambia Sugar is currently developing a strategy to further enable small growers to become economically-viable suppliers of cane