Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge (WE4F) Southern and Central Africa Regional Innovation Hub (S/CA RIH) has launched its first Call for Innovations, open to enterprises, non-profits and academic...
Consistent blackouts in South Africa have left poultry farmers struggling with low production, processing backlogs and hardly any room for chicks, resulting in the unfortunate need to cull more than...
In an attempt to scale up its response to the most severe humanitarian crises and emergencies, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed a US$23.7mn contribution...
Cocoa trader and processor Noble Group has become the latest signatory of the Abidjan Cocoa Declaration after signing the agreement at the World Cocoa Conference in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Minister MacKay and MP Armstrong have rolled out two projects that will help increase farmers’ productivity and resilience in Ethiopia
Satellite data providers ConstellR and ScanWorld have announced a new partnership which aims to leverage on combined Earth observation expertise to provide data-driven insights for agriculture and vegetation monitoring
German animal nutrition company, MIAVIT GmbH has now opened a new office and warehouse in Kenya to serve customers’ needs for quality nutritional products
Philippe Mauguin, CEO of INRAE, and Dr Marc Prikazsky, chairman and CEO of Ceva Santé Animale (Ceva), have signed a first framework agreement to strengthen collaboration in the field of...
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced last week that the import into and sale within Hong Kong of raw oysters harvested in...
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
Agritech company Farmcrowdy enables British Nigerians to invest in chicken, maize and cassava farms, from more than 3,000 miles away, via their mobile phones
During the 'Omor-In-Focus' ceremony, Chris Oranu Chidume, Eze Igulube, Eze-Anaukwu, of Omor Kingdom expressed readiness in leveraging Governor Charles Soludo's smart agriculture project
Green Farms Nut Company (GFNC) has undertaken to build South Africa’s biggest macadamia nut processing facility with phase one of two, set for completion in 2018
Eseye, global provider of M2M cellular connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), has partnered with Burkard, to use IoT in forecasting crop disease, with an aim to enhance yields
US agricultural equipment manufacturer, AGCO, revealed it will invest US$100mn in Africa over a three-year period by the end of 2012 at AGCO Africa Summit 2014
High-level guests gathered at Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire for the official launch of the Prosper Cashew project, a five-year initiative that will help West Africa capture much greater economic value from...
New Holland Agriculture has introduced three new tractor models at the SARA fair in Cote D’Ivoire
Moba, a company that produces high-quality integrated systems for the grading, packaging and processing of eggs for consumption, has announced the collaboration between Moba and Meggson, to serve the market...
UN’s food assistance branch World Food Programme (WFP) has donated 60 solar grain dryers worth US$39,104.64 to smallholder farmers in Rwanda
Valmont Industries, Inc, one of the leading global providers of engineered products and services for infrastructure and irrigation equipment for agriculture, has partnered with Prospera Technologies Inc, an Israeli machine...