FAO, the Government of Senegal, ECOWAS, WHO, OIE and their partners in West African countries, including Cameroon, met in Dakar to take stock of the implementation of the recommendations from...
The Government of Japan has contributed US$760,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide daily nutritious meals to 90,000 school children in Cabo Verde in 2023
The African Development Bank (AfDB), in collaboration with the government of Nigeria, has held a meeting with stakeholders to discuss details around special agro-industrial processing zones in Nigeria
To educate practicing and aspiring smallholder farmers, entrepreneurs on poultry farming management, agricultural firms Bizy mind Investment, Sly Investment and Agriculture Entrepreneurs Society (AGESO) have planned a series of workshops...
Besides the 600,000 refugees from Sudan, Niger, Cameroon and Central African Republic who are being hosted by Chad, an additional 300,000 people comprising of internally displaced Chadians are in dire...
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries says the Abalobi social media application has expanded to include stakeholders who are driven to address challenges facing small-scale fish farmers
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has called for the revival of the sugar industry
A report – ‘On Air Dialogues: Listening to Rural People’ – released recently by Farm Radio International, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), World Vision Canada, and the Canadian Food Security...
Naïo Technologies, an expert in agricultural robotics solutions, and VARTA, a specialist in innovation and key battery technology, have collaborated to create an autonomous transportable charging station for robots to...
The government of Mauritius has allocated a 500 sq m plot in Pointe aux Sables to the Chagos refugees group for establishing a training centre to provide agricultural and handicraft...
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has urged political leaders to support the country's farmers in rearing dairy cows to help increase agricultural households' income
The UK has launched the second round of a business innovation challenge fund that will see an additional five promising businesses receive grant funding and technical assistance of up to...
A new agro-weather tool has been developed in Kenya to help local farmers
USAID, in conjunction with the Kenya Livestock Marketing Council (KLMC), has initiated an US$84,000 livestock identification project in northern Kenya to curb cattle theft
Agri-EPI, the precision farming specialists, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the agency, Pôle Digital de l’Agriculture, at SIAM, Morocco’s international agriculture exhibition, at which the United Kingdom is guest...
Being named as the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate, Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), pledged to devote the US$250,000 prize money to support young African farmers...
The Regional Centre of Excellence for Poultry Science (CERSA), University of Lome, and World Poultry Science Association (WPSA-Togo branch) are co-organising the second edition of the Pan-African Poultry Conference (PPC)...
Staffordshire agricultural incinerator manufacturer Addfield Environmental Systems has introduced a highly flexible solution for large broiler houses and poultry farms with the release and installation of the first A50L in...
A University of Bologna coordinated scheme, co-funded by the LIFE program 2014-2020 aims to provide proper irrigation management to fight against soil degradation
On 9 December, New Holland Agriculture unveiled the next step in its Clean Energy journey with the T7 Methane Power LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) pre-production prototype tractor
The Rubber Outgrower Project has helped plant more than 11,000 hectares in Ghana. (Image source: Jbdodane/Flickr)
