New analysis published in the academic Science journal traces the cause of the recent global eradication of deadly cattle disease, rinderpest, and credits local African herders for their insight and assistance
The Pyrethrum Board of Kenya has distributed more than US$13,000 of funding to Kenyan farmers in Kisii and Nyamira counties
In a bid to strengthen its focus on the grain business, AFGRI, along with Public Investment Corporation (PIC) of South Africa, has announced the sale of its poultry business
Kenyan sugarcane farmers have asked their government to control the buying and distribution of sugar in the East African country in order to stem corruption within the sugar sector
Evonik has developed science-based system solutions for the gut health of broiler chickens, laying hens and weaned to growing-finishing pigs
The Netherlands -headquartered Moba has announced innovations in crack detection system using artificial intelligence (AI), a move in which the existing Crack Detector and Shell Strength Detector will become standard...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and the Burkinabé authorities have reached a staff-level agreement for about US$80mn – comprising 50% of Burkina Faso’s IMF quota – in emergency financing through...
Farmers in Africa are increasingly embracing climate-smart agriculture, a recently released book has claimed
Germany’s Amatheon Agri Group and Japan’s Toyota Tsusho Corporation have announced a joint venture that will invest approximately US$10mn in an agricultural project in Zambia
Ethiopia’s agricultural sector is the bedrock of the economy, employing more than 70 per cent of the workforce, accounting for more than a third of GDP and serving as the...
Laying hens and broilers perform best within a temperature range of 11-26°C. The behavioural and physiological changes that occur with progressive temperature increases beyond the top end of this range are well documented
Earth Rover, a UK agri-robotics company and Agri-EPI Centre member, has developed the LightWeeder to solve key challenges faced by laser-based weeding systems
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have warned of acutely food insecure people in West and Central Africa...
‘Digitise’ is one of the current buzzwords in the animal production industry, but in common with many such terms, it can mean different things to different people
A recent intellectual property workshop has prompted interest in protecting Rwanda’s unique plants
Major stakeholders in Ghana stressed the need for comprehensive and coherent national policy framework to create an enabling environment for sustainable agribusiness development
A recent study has analysed data from countries to see which ones have increased or decreased their consumption of meat.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) are working with Zambian experts to address drug resistant microbes as well as food contamination in meat...
The Delivery Unit under the Office of the Prime Minister of Guinea is launching an initiative to help farmer cooperatives in Maférénya and Kindia regions increase their farm yield, productivity,...
The recent Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) has demonstrated that the power of entrepreneurs and the free market is driving Africa’s economic growth from food production, with the food production...
The aim is to provide sustainable poultry system worldwide. (Image source: Ralph/Pixabay)
