Coffee production has decreased from 6,706 tonnes in 2014/15 to 5,882 in 2018/19 due to a decrease in land for cultivation because of population growth which has led to farmers ... Read more »
Joyce Kamande and Samuel Rigu, who met at university, are using their childhood experiences on small, struggling farms to help other rural farmers. They have built Safi Organics, a ... Read more »
Safi Organics, a small enterprise located 100 km (60 milles) northeast of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, produces carbon-neutral fertilisers using a waste product from rice ... Read more »
The COVID-19 outbreak is already taking its toll on all sectors of the economy, including agriculture, with the pandemic inflicting damages worth millions to farmers and ... Read more »
With researchers noting that little is known about how long the novel coronavirus survives in water, South Africa wants to avoid sudden, poorly planned burials that could result in ... Read more »
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how impoverished people and the working class suffer when food prices rise and jobs disappear, prompting a renewed interest in working the ... Read more »
The prolonged nationwide shortage of sugar is because companies permitted to import the sweetener are not directly shipping the product into the country and not docking at ... Read more »
Less than ten years ago, avocado exports never existed in Tanzania but now they have become the country's latest green gold. Data from the private sector horticultural apex body, ... Read more »
President Yoweri Museveni has signed the Sugar Act 2020 as the country ponders selling off its surplus sugar to Tanzania, with the first consignment of 20,000 metric tonnes ... Read more »
Zimbabwe is one of 10 countries where fewer than 20% of children receive a minimally adequate diet, further compromising their lifelong quality of life, according to the latest ... Read more »
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