Africa: Agroecology As the Centrepiece of Sustainable Food Systems

In three weeks, the United Nations will bring together farmers, scientists, policymakers and civil society for the last major event ahead of the September UN Food Systems Summit. Read more »

Africa: Helping Youth Agribusiness Keep Pace With Fast Growing Africa

From small towns to big cities, sub-Saharan Africa has the fastest urban growth rate in the world. The continent's population is expected to double by 2050 with the youth… Read more »

Nigeria: Tech Savvy Youth With High Social-Emotional Skills Succeed in Agriculture - Study Shows

Saheed Babajide, a young animal production graduate and a manager at a national milk production company in Iseyin, Nigeria, is a beneficiary of the government's youth agriculture… Read more »

Africa: Policy Inconsistencies and Poor Research Slow Young Farmers in Africa

It is not everyday that a young farmer registers success in his enterprise and vows this is what he will do for the rest of his life. Yet this is the story of Lihle Moyo, a… Read more »

Malawi: Youth Wipe Away Unemployment Tears With Agribusiness

After getting tired of searching for employment for seven years, Feston Zale from Chileka area in Malawi's Southern Region decided to venture into agribusiness. Read more »

Africa: Covid-19 an Opportunity to Build Resilience Around Food Systems

The Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) has appealed to the United Nations to educate citizens to use their roles as consumers to create a momentum for change. This was… Read more »

Africa: Digitisation Could Transform African Agriculture

Placing an online order for farming inputs saves Velebantfu Dlamini about USD12 in transport fees for a round trip of about 320 kilometres. The 26-year-old vegetable farmer from… Read more »

Africa: CARE Offers Policies That Engender Success for Young People in Agribusiness

Often cited as Africa's greatest asset, its youth are also among the most vulnerable and volatile. Read more »

Africa: What Does Building Back Better Look Like for African Women Engaged in Smallholder Agriculture and Food Businesses?

"We need to build back better." This has been the rallying call on the COVID-19 response by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to leaders and communities around the world. It… Read more »

Africa: Gendering Agriculture So Women Take the Lead in Feeding Africa

Africa's hopes of feeding a population projected to double by 2050 amidst a worsening climate crisis rest on huge investments in agriculture, including creating the conditions so… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Sustainability of Natural Food Sources Take a Knock Amid Growing Economic Crisis

Sarudzai Moyo, a former teacher, has begun a new career as a fishmonger. Once a week she makes the 450km journey from Bulawayo to Binga, on the shores of Lake Kariba, where she… Read more »

East Africa: Scientists Draw Up Guidelines to Help Agri-Food Companies Align With 2030 Agenda

In Amuru district, 47 kilometres from Gulu town in northwestern Uganda, the Omer Farming Company has proven that it is possible to farm on thousands of acres of land using methods… Read more »

Africa: Failing Africa's Farmers, Starving the Continent

African organizations are demanding answers after a recent report found that Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) strategies have failed spectacularly to meet its goals… Read more »

Africa: How Women-Led Agribusinesses Boost Nutrition on the Continent

Oluwaseun Sangoleye's son developed rickets after rejecting baby formula. So she started a business to make natural baby cereal from locally-sourced ingredients in Nigeria. Read more »

Africa: To Stay Ahead of the Next Insect Outbreak, Harness Available Data Intelligence

Recently, the UK contributed £17 million to support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to continue their efforts to combat the desert locust… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Post-Pandemic Future Needs to Embrace Youth in Agriculture

Warnings at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic that Africa could be hit by a wave of up to 10 million cases within six months thankfully now seem unfounded, although it is… Read more »

Africa: Agroecology Strengthens Farmers' Resilience but Highly Underfunded in Africa

With just a quarter of an acre of land in Kesses near Kenya's Eldoret town in the Rift Valley region, Samson Tanui is practising agroecology and his permaculture unit has become… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Digital Agriculture Benefits Zimbabwe's Farmers but Mobile Money Is Costly

Shurugwi communal farmer, Elizabeth Siyapi (57) can no longer be scammed by unscrupulous middlemen to sell her crops cheaply. Nowadays, before she takes her produce to market she… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's Smallholder Farmers Step Into the Food Supply Gap

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe' second city of some 700,000 people, has experienced a shortage of vegetables this year, with major producers citing a range of challenges from poor rains to the… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Youth Scholars Harvest Ideas On the Business of Agriculture

In Rwanda, Benimana Uwera Gilberthe, a scholar and pepper producer, experienced first-hand the challenges of breaking into agribusiness. Read more »

Africa: Reimagining Farming Post-COVID Pandemic

Together with medical services and transportation, farming and food production have been correctly identified as 'essential services' by all countries under lockdown. The Covid-19… Read more »

Africa: 'Continent Needs a Green Counter-Revolution'

In 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation jointly launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). The African Green Revolution… Read more »

Africa: Creating Opportunities to Nurture Agripreneurship Among Africa's Youth

"It is not easy to be in agriculture but you must have the perseverance and you must have the passion for it," Ngozi Okeke (30), the director of operations at Frotchery Farms,… Read more »

Swaziland: Climate-Smart Agriculture Means More Time for Women Farmers

Aside from the seven hours Mantfombi Msibi (63) would spend daily during the Eswatini farming season planting, applying herbicides and weeding her 1.2-hectare maize field, she… Read more »

Senegal: Senegal Farmer Succeeds With Regenerative Agriculture And Begins Teaching Others

Souylemane Samb sits under a crowded tent on a hot Senegalese day. He wears a canvas vest with Trees for the Future printed across the back. Read more »