Minister of Public Health and Sanitation, Beth Mugo has said that the government will spend six billion shillings in the next five years to improve nutrition in the country. Kenya ... Read more »

High levels of unemployment and poverty have movitated non-governmental organization's and successful individuals to reach out to the less fortunate and donate food and clothes. Read more »

The nation's dairy industry is suffering as it can't keep up with its South African competitors who sell milk products at a cheap price. Read more »

Farmers struggling to harvest staple crops of maize and rice are heeding the advice of agricultural experts to diversify their crops. Read more »

The importance of smallholder farmers to communities, ecosystems and even food security is often underplayed, as allAfrica discussed in an interview with Gates Foundation's ... Read more »

Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has called on the government and the private sector to invest further in farming during a drive to improve access to modern agricultural inputs. Read more »

The director of agricultural development for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Development Program, Sam Dryden, says policy makers and development officials must ... Read more »

In the wake of regional flooding, the United Nations is calling for urgent help to combat series of intestinal-worm and other tropical diseases that have spread. Read more »

As food prices spike, urban areas burgeon and crops fail, researchers have found promise in the most unlikely of places – cities. Experts have tapped urban agriculture as a ... Read more »

Amidst persistent bombardment by the Sudan Armed Forces, the number of households in South Kordofan surviving on one meal per day has jumped to a staggering 81.5 percent, compared ... Read more »