Andre Laperrière, executive director of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) has highlighted the importance of sustainable farming practices to deal with global food security issues
Tanzania-based Agripro Tanzania Limited has announced it will create a training programme on better farming methods to farmers in five Tanzanian regions starting in October 2013
UK-based biorational pest control solutions provider Russell IPM has developed and tested an effective monitoring system against fall armyworm (FAW)
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, a leading poultry processing solutions company, recently introduced the new Physic In-Line Thigh Deboner M1.0 in response to the growing popularity of dark meat chicken
Agriculture AI company FarmVisionAI has released a mobile app designed to engage growers in-field with vision AI stress detections
The World Bank has approved US$150mn grant from the International Development Association (IDA) in support of the first phase of Mozambique’s Sustainable Rural Economy Programme
Kenya has launched a coffee branding initiative designed to boost its global coffee sales and help the industry regain its position as a top foreign exchange earner
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has announced plans to create three and a half million jobs in the country's agricultural sector
According to global nutritional health company Diamond V, reducing the pathogens in the gastro-intestinal tracts of their chickens and turkeys can help reduce the risk of pathogens in food processing...
Drones are now extensively used in agriculture, for crop spraying, data mapping, detecting diseases among plants and keeping pests away.
As the prevalence of tree locust is steadily increasing, the Ministry of Agriculture, on 26 March, called on all bodies concerned to actively conduct surveillance to help control the menace
The Commission for the Real Economy of the Council of Ministers has approved the development plan for artisanal fisheries for the 2014/2017 period at a recent meeting held in Luanda,...
At its Tech Day in Phoenix, Arizona, CNH Industrial revealed the New Holland T4 Electric Power – the industry’s first all-electric light utility tractor prototype with autonomous features
Innovative post-harvest treatment, digital agriculture and food systems and re-modelling market channels offer huge potential to tackle the challenges of food loss and waste, said FAO director-general QU Dongyu
Drought throughout East Africa has sharply curbed harvests and pushed the prices of cereals and other staple foods to unusually high levels, posing a heavy burden to households and special...
The Ghanaian government is working on a proposal to provide funding to Ghana's poultry industry to reduce the cost of imports
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Government through the Ministry of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry (MECTHI), launched the 10-year Lake Kariba...
Africa’s agriculture sector could be argued to be failing but with technology, education and funding there’s a way back and the UN Climate talks could help this
The World Bank plans to invest more than US$5bn over the next five years to help restore degraded landscapes, improve agriculture productivity, and promote livelihoods across 11 African countries on...
