Zambia: Communities Taking a Sting Out of Poaching With Alternative Livelihoods

As we approach the forest in the village to appreciate Andrew Mbewe's beekeeping enterprise, a bee from a hive close to the edge of the natural woodland stings him on the cheek. Read more »

Africa: African Agro-Processors Call for Policies Conducive to Local Manufacturing

Experts at the Africa Food Systems Forum (AGRF) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, have called on African governments to make and review existing policies to protect the processing and… Read more »

Africa: Digging Africa Deeper Into Hunger - Annual Green Revolution Forum Ignores Widespread Failure of Its Push for Industrialized Agriculture

As the adage goes, when you find yourself stuck in a hole, stop digging. As African leaders and their philanthropic and bilateral sponsors prepare for another glitzy African Green… Read more »

Africa: Vaccine Equality Is As Vital for Livestock As for People

Enrique Hernández Pando is Executive Director, Commercial Development & Impact, GALVmed Read more »

Africa: Pre-Colonial Delicacy Could Help Food Security and Climate Change #AfricaClimateHope

Kenya's fight for food security may have just gone 'Old School' as Egerton University dons win a grant to help bring back a pre-colonial delicacy that was gradually sliding its way… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean Farmers Turn to Agroecology to Feed Their Families #AfricaClimateHope

When Nelson Mudzingwa arrived in the Shashe farming area in Mashava in Masvingo, about 294 kilometres from the capital Harare, in the early 2000s, the land was barren, with no hope… Read more »

Africa: Clock Is Ticking for Food Security in Africa, Says New IITA Head

"My key message is really simple," says Dr Simeon Ehui, the newly-appointed director general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, which works with partners… Read more »

Rwanda: Women Seek to Boost Innovation and Creativity in Agribusiness

Adeline Umukunzi, a 28-year-old woman mushroom farmer in Musanze, a district located about 100 km north of the capital Kigali, said women have often been the unseen faces of… Read more »

Africa: If Govts Have the Tools to Stop Fishing-Related Deaths, Why Aren't They Being Used?

Long before Hollywood highlighted the dangers of commercial fishing in The Perfect Storm, Deadliest Catch and other programming, governments around the world knew that this was one… Read more »

Africa: Managing Water Sustainably Is Key to the Future of Food and Agriculture

In contrast to its strategic role as an essential resource to help achieve community development and poverty alleviation globally, groundwater has remained a poorly understood and… Read more »

Africa: Continent's Vast Arable Land Underused for Both Cash and Food Crops - Experts

Concerns are rife that while Africa is growing more crops, these are not for food and that on the current trajectory, present food import costs into Africa, now estimated at 55… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Greening the City Gets Community Treatment in Zimbabwe

It's a typical story in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city. With the failure to provide services such as refuse collection by the local municipality, township residents dump… Read more »

Africa: Pan-African Approach Needed to Tackle Food Insecurity Arising From Conflict and Climate Shocks

Upheaval on the global stage, the war in Ukraine, conflict in the Horn of Africa, severe climatic shocks, high international inflation, increasing global commodity prices, high… Read more »

Africa: COP27 - Africa's Agri-Food Systems Losses Ignored in Global Climate Negotiations

At a time when sustainable farming approaches such as agroecology have been removed from the text at ongoing global climate negotiation (COP27) taking place in Sharm El Sheikh,… Read more »

Africa: Addressing the Cow in the Room, Lowing for Nutrition and Livelihoods #AfricaClimateCrisis

Meat, milk, and eggs are bad for you, and livestock is bad for the environment. Read more »

Africa: Alarm Bells for Africa, Child Labour in Agriculture Requires Urgent Action

The Global Estimate on Child Labour estimates 160 million children are in child labour worldwide - an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years - with millions more… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Ecstasy As Smallholder Farmers Secure European Pineapple Market

In her wildest dreams, smallholder farmer Sarudzai Sithole never imagined that her pineapples could someday stock the produce section of Europe's finest supermarkets. Read more »

Malawi: High Global Fertiliser Prices Overshadow Farm Subsidy Programme

Ellena Joseph, a small-scale maize farmer in Chiradzulu District in Southern Malawi, finished preparing her field early in October. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Getting a Grip On Food Security in DR Congo

The Association for Integrated Rural Development is one of a number of rural organisations on the periphery of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Mechanisation Fails for Farmers

Mechanisation was expected to transform agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo's central province of East Kasaï. But a project to offer tractors for ploughing land… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Fresh Start for Coffee Producers

Long years of civil war and instability set off a crippling decline in coffee production in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the country's output in 2010 was less than a tenth the… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Farmers Welcome Support

Farmers in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo are looking forward to increased production after 16 tractors and 200 ox-drawn carts were distributed across three regions… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Price Snags for Cotton Farmers

Some call it "white gold"; but, the ever-falling price of cotton means that this nickname may end up being more ironic than complimentary. In Burkina Faso cotton producers are, for… Read more »