President John Magufuli has expressed his dissatisfaction at the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank for failing to empower farmers despite a U.S.$158 million cash injection ... Read more »
Developing the agriculture sector is seen by Nigeria's government as a key way to move the economy away from reliance on oil production. The government embarked on an Anchor ... Read more »
Rising temperatures and worsening drought linked to climate change are now hitting coffee production - and fixing that may require moving many Ethiopian coffee fields uphill, ... Read more »
The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority has ordered the immediate closure of a cold storage facility owned by Diamond Food Enterprise, for using unacceptably high levels ... Read more »
It was reported that a consignment of 172 containers exported to Vietnam contained some 78 sacks mixed with a substantial amount of aggregates and stones. Read more »
Farming fish in the desert might sound counterintuitive but Algeria hopes to tap the huge aquifers beneath the Sahara - that covers about 80% of the country - as it seeks new ways ... Read more »
According to Tanzania's National Bureau of Statistics, the country's cattle population has increased to 30.5 million cows in 2016/17 compared with 25.8 million recorded in the ... Read more »
When Ugandan farmer Eveline Aryemo first tried the NABE 15 improved bean variety, she did not know that this seed contained superior abilities to not only tolerate drought ... Read more »
"Agriculture is the quintessential sector for the transformation of the African continent and we must treat it as such," the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for ... Read more »
Climate smart agricultural practices (CSA), as defined by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, are approaches that help to transform and reorient agricultural and food systems ... Read more »
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