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...
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received US$1.2mn from the Republic of Korea to provide humanitarian activities for food crisis in the following countries: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Madagascar, South Sudan...
The Bill and Belinda Gates Foundation has issued a US$26mn grant to boost technology among dairy farmers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) director-general Jose Graziano da Silva met with Ugandan vice-president, Edward Sekandi, to explore ways to improve food security for Ugandans and eradicate poverty
Blaatto, a digital platform recently launched by UN Women and a part of the UN agency’s Buy From Women initiative, will target women smallholder farmers and members of women-led agricultural...
As Internet access has broadened in Africa, technology firms have been able to reach an ever wider audience
The US Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S Sullivan has led a ribbon cutting and inaugurated a shea butter processing facility that will support increased economic opportunities for 600 Ghanaian women...
With an aim to teach agricultural skills to young adults, Kia Motors has opened a new ‘Green Light Project’ (GLP) vocational training centre in Gahengeri Sector in Rwanda’s Eastern Province
African countries have the opportunity to tap into Japan's knowledge of smart technologies, agricultural machinery and marketing, according to FAO director-general Qu Dongyu
United Nations (UN) agencies are calling for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable children in the 15 countries hardest hit by an unprecedented food and nutrition crisis, and scaling...
A full-scale industrial dairy farm will be built in Nigeria after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between NigerPars Nigeria Limited, the Iranian Research Organisation for Science and Technology...
A machine to crush and extract oil from nuts of tropical almond has been designed in Ghana, which might transform the crop into a leading non-traditional export commodity
Africa is capable of feeding itself in one generation – this is the bold message from Harvard University Professor Calestous Juma, in his book The New Harvest, Agricultural Innovation...
Flour Mills of Nigeria has proposed a merger deal with Nigerian Bag Manufacturing Company (Bagco) and Northern Bag Manufacturing Company (Bagco-North)
PML Kenya has invested US$300,000 in a new vacuum cooler system designed to provide customers with an affordable and highly efficient temperature control measure to improve cool chain management
By Dr Terry Mabbett
The recently elected new Government in Ghana is steaming ahead with free thinking and free market policies for agriculture with the ultimate aim of food self sufficiency.
Jürgen Skowaisa, product manager Radar at VEGA Grieshaber KG in Schiltach, Germany, speaks about their new series of sensors
The Starbucks Foundation has awarded US$750,000 to a Tanzanian project to provide cows to coffee farmers
The Kenyan Dairy Board is pushing a savings and credit cooperative organisation (SACCO) model among milk traders to streamline and transform the sector