To improve food security, as well as to support trade and market development in South Sudan, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) has constructed feeder roads – secondary roads...
South African beef has finally received approval for export to Saudi Arabia, marking the first time in two decades
The high cost of imported rice in Guinea, West Africa, has led to a change in diets and an increased use of cassava, which can provide three tonnes of food...
Researchers at the Kenya-based International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), in collaboration with colleagues from Germany, have for the first time decoded the chemical signals that attract the...
As one of the best sellers in the JOSKIN muck spreader range, the 'new generation' Tornado has been given a number of improvements, as well as an upgraded design
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has launched a facility to help disaster-hit farms worldwide
Global animal nutrition and feed company, Nutreco, has shown interest in investing in Ghana’s poultry industry
According to the latest report from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), consumer price index (CPI) inflation rose by 6.6% y-o-y in August, basically unchanged from the revised figure...
South Africa’s stone fruit industry is back running at full speed, with exporters saying they are in a stronger position following last year’s port strikes
Zimbabwe will start exporting beef to the Russian market, according to a senior government minister
Biobest has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Real IPM Kenya, a leading company in biological control in East Africa
The European Union (EU) has provided US$16.5mn to support the competitiveness of Ethiopia’s coffee sector
Niger has bought more than 72 different breeds of cattle, as well as 700 boar goats and doper sheep, from South African firm UCK Investments
Ghana’s minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto said the government is planning to diversify the agriculture sector, in order to generate more revenue for national development...
Namibian veteran poultry farmer, Eric Campbell, has launched a micro-project for the production of chickens and eggs in Omama, a small settlement located in the Rehoboth Rural Consitutency in the...
The Private Agricultural Sector Support Trust (PASS Trust) will spend nearly US$46mn in Tanzania in order to restore irrigation schemes that have been inactive for many years
An impact fund with an innovative approach for attracting much-needed capital to the rural areas of developing countries will be launched at the annual meeting of Member States of the...
Commitment to seed development and oil palm production in the DRC, based on decades of breeding experience and local skills
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has received the Order of the Griffin award, one of Purdue University’s highest honours, recognising his vision to boost up agricultural...
In an alert released on 14 July 2017, FAO stated that poor rainfall across the east African countries worsened hunger and left crops scorched, pastures dry and thousands of livestock...