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Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export.
Sudan is hoping to use foreign cash to reinvigorate its under-performing agricultural sector, but there is growing disagreement over the extent to which outsiders, rather than local farmers, should be taking control of the industry.
As Africa grapples with the question of food insecurity, biotechnology buffs seem to have an answer: genetically modified crops that could feed a continent vulnerable to famine and food deficits. But environmentalists warn of new dangers.
PETER Michael Hitschmann, the former police reservist who was jailed after the discovery of an arms cache on his property, was released on Thursday and vowed not to be a state witness in the trial of Roy Bennett, the MDC Deputy Minister of Agriculture designate.
GOVERNMENT'S restriction of live sheep exports to South Africa has been found to be illegal by the South African Agricultural Marketing Board.
Successive governments in Nigeria have made several efforts to boosting agriculture and food production through the establishment of agencies like the upper Benue River Basin Dev elopement Authority, Chad Basin Authority, Hadejia. Jamare River Basin Development Authority to serve as facilitators.
As an African Union summit on agricultural investments opens in Libya, donors and non-profits are calling participants' attention to the role smallholder farmers - mostly women - can have in feeding their communities.
Under a new initiative international donors are backing Africa-based policy research to improve local decision-making on complex global issues with potentially enormous humanitarian consequences like food security and climate change.
Red tunas, sharks, rays and cods may soon disappear from our tables. Negotiations are ongoing at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to reduce the subsidies that contribute to this catastrophe.
Relief food distribution in Turkana Central is under threat due to a tussle between the area MP and some constituents over which agency should give it out.
RUNAWAY FOOD PRICES GAVE the world a wake-up call last year. Two weeks ago, another alarm went off: UN food agencies reported that the world's hungry have surpassed one billion in number. At least 265 million of these are in sub-Saharan Africa - an increase of almost 12 per cent over last year.
Some Masvingo teachers are allegedly demanding buckets of maize and sweet potatoes from students who fail to raise school fees, a practice condemned by parents as a "raw deal" for them.
Mpumalanga farmers will soon have access to all the advice and technical facilities they need to make a success of farming.
The tea producers in Tanzania are confident of accessing export markets despite the global financial crisis.
Six Government ministries have delayed payment of Sh22 million owed to the northern branch of the Tanzania Agricultural Societies Organisation (Taso).
THE Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) has denied accusations that its members are buying maize at K35,000 per 50 kg bag saying it did not discuss the purchase of maize with its members.
SOUTH Africa's agri-processing group Tongaat Hulett has announced plans to consolidate its Zimbabwe sugar operations in its financial statements for the first half of this year, advising shareholders that the move was likely to have a sizeable impact on financial results.
ONE of the biggest problems facing Ugandan farmers is lack of technical information about their enterprises. They also lack access to extension services.
In yet another bid to eliminate poverty among the poor, the Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, has gone into organic vegetable farming with the aim of encouraging the peri-urban youth to take up the initiative for better livelihoods.
SMALL-SCALE fish farmers in northern Uganda have received sh1.15b to boost their activities.
A food scientist has asked the Standards Organization of Nigeria to begin standardizing agricultural produce to enhance their competitiveness and to promote investment.
This is that time of the year when reports about how well donors have performed in meeting their aid commitments are released. 2009 is unique because of the devastating effects of the global financial crisis and what is on everyone's mind is: will donors sustain their commitments or will they buckle under the heavyweight of the global financial crisis?
Without a doubt I vote H.E. Bingu wa Mutharika, the President of the Republic of Malawi, one of the best performing African Presidents. And the reason for it is simple; in 2004 when he came into power he made a pledge: “I will not be a president who goes around begging for food”. Unlike other rhetorical commitments we have often been treated to, he has put his words into action.
Farmers in Kasambya sub-county, Kibaale district have rejected 15 friesian cows supplied under the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme.
The former minister of agriculture, Kisamba Mugerwa, has urged government to seriously consider research as a vital component of development.
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