Four UK agri-tech centres – CHAP, CIEL, Agri-EPI and Agrimetrics – have formed a sustainable farming partnership with world leading agricultural research and training organisation, Wageningen University & Research (WUR)...
Zimbabwe’s government has taken steps to source fertilisers from Belarus to ensure their sufficient availability in time for the upcoming cropping season
The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), have launched the agriculture and food security joint Thematic Working Group (TWG)...
The live component of the Women in Food and Agriculture (WFA) Digital Festival successfully brought together more than 600 representatives from the global food and agriculture sector last week
Aviagen, along with its regional distributor, Ross Breeders Zambia, is continuing to invest in the African region to enhance its developing supply chain and its ‘global reach, local touch’ strategy,...
Meyn has unveiled Killer M2.0, a high-speed slaughter solution offering flexibility, precision, and safety
The 44th edition of the EIMA international agricultural machinery exhibition, held in Bologna from 19-23 October, will showcase the latest products and ranges from the major brands
The governor of northern Nigerian state, Kwara, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has urged the Federal Government to make supporting the development of agribusiness in the country more of a priority
Startups, SMEs and corporate partners at the Bright Science Hub can access FoodInnovate’s extensive networks, the Royal DSM’s application centres and technical expertise for prototyping and nutritional product development, IncuBaker...
Pöttinger has unveiled new CROSS FLOW auger that merges the swath immediately after mowing
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in partnership with Takaful Insurance of Africa has launched a pilot project to support pastoral livestock herders in the drought-prone Wajir County in northern...
The Advanced Maize Seed Adoption Program (AMSAP) has been immensely successful in outpacing the maize production target in 2017 by 150 per cent in Ethiopia, which, in addition, has boosted...
Gambia’s department of livestock services is targeting to vaccinate 700,000 chickens in an ongoing campaign against the New Castle Disease (NCD) that affects poultry countrywide
The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) project to support the employability and integration of young people in growth sectors (PAEIJ-SP) in Togo has helped create 35,000 jobs in agricultural SMEs
Research presented by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has shown that if broilers have to forage and peck the larvae, they move more, which improves their welfare
The African Development Bank (AfDB), with financing from the Italian Technical Cooperation Fund, has provided a US$1.1mn grant to help smaller agro-processing enterprises boost production and quality control
The Federal Government of Nigeria and the International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations (IFAD) are working together to lessen the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small-scale...
Sierra Leone will look to the African Development Bank (AfDB) to stimulate agribusiness development in the country with a focus on rice production, President Maada Bio told a visiting delegation...
The Masvingo Provincial Hospital storeroom has been transformed into a new standalone microbiology laboratory, thanks to the United Kingdom’s (UK) Fleming Fund
Scott Massey, a Purdue University graduate and founder of Heliponix, a company that makes an appliance that fits under a kitchen counter and grows produce year-round, brings sustainable agriculture methods...