South Africa: What's Happening In South African News - April 20, 2021

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Africa: Food Insecurity An Evolving Concern in Covid-19-Hit Sub-Saharan Africa

As the world marks the second anniversary of the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions caused by this global crisis continue to evolve. Read more »

South Africa: What's Happening In South African News - March 22, 2022

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Uganda: Coffee Farmers Unhappy After World Body Exit

Uganda has assured its coffee farmers and exporters that their prized cash crop will still be in high demand in the international market despite the country pulling out from an… Read more »

Africa: What Africa Needs to Deal with Recurring Drought #AfricaClimateCrisis

According to the United Nations, World Food Programme (WFP), up to 13 million people living in the Horn of Africa are facing severe hunger because of record breaking droughts… Read more »

South Africa: What's Happening In South African News - February 25, 2022

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Kenya: Ongoing Drought Shows Why Kenya Must Invest in Scaling Up Agricultural Innovation #AfricaClimateCrisis

The prolonged drought impacting the north, which has left more than 2.5 million people on the brink of starvation and poverty, is only the latest in an increasingly short cycle… Read more »

Africa: How Covid-19 Responses Impacted Africa's Food System

When the Covid-19 hit, governments all over the world became responsible for curbing the spread of the virus. Leaders across Africa came up with regulations that have affected the… Read more »

South Africa: Marijuana Farm License Body's Board Are Constitution Delinquents - Black Farmers Association

On April 22, the Black Farmers Association of South Africa (BFASA) is protesting against the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA)'s role in the… Read more »

South Africa: Indigenous People Being Excluded From Marijuana Industry - Black Farmers Association

Black farmers are taking on the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) over the exclusion of indigenous people in the handing out of cannabis licenses. Read more »

Africa: Africa's Youth Finds its Power in Transforming Food Systems

With  one in every five   young people today coming from Africa, it has become increasingly hard to ignore us. Read more »

Liberia: Social Entrepreneur Mahmud Johnson Envisions a New World through Palm Kernels

Mahmud Johnson is among a group of young Liberians who attended university in the United States and, rather than settling abroad, returned to their country to help rebuild it.… Read more »

Liberia: Educare Partners with United States African Development Foundation to Boost Entrepreneurs and Farmers

Educare Liberia is a non-governmental organization dedicated to building people and building communities. Among its initiatives are promoting women's involvement in… Read more »

Africa: How The Digital Revolution Can Help Level The Playing Field for African Women in Agriculture

The race to limit the spread of Covid-19 has, through necessity, accelerated many other transformations that were already under way, including the digital revolution in African… Read more »

South Africa: Last Day To Have Your Say on the Draft Cannabis Bill!

The draft Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill for South Africa is flawed, restrictive and discriminatory as it focuses only on criminalisation. As the draft is currently open… Read more »

Rwanda: Small Batches of Rwandan Coffee Pack Big Punch in World Market

They may be from the smallest country in eastern Africa, but coffee farmers in Rwanda can still compete in the international market with giant coffee exporters like Colombia,… Read more »

Africa: Covid-19 Shows Why Agricultural Research Needs Greater Gender Equality

In the months since coronavirus first emerged, scientists around the world swiftly pivoted to the pandemic response with many focused on developing a vaccine and mitigating the… Read more »

Benin: Feed the People! The Audacious Ambitions of Rural Benin Women

Produce innovative versions of a staple food for a regional market. Feed hungry people, now and in the future. While you're at it, train farmers - mostly women - in improved… Read more »

Africa: New Research Set to Produce More Productive, Sustainable Cattle

Geneticists believe that newly-published research on the resilience of African cattle can help breed new generations which yield more milk and meat than at present. Read more »

Burkina Faso: Young Rice Producers Combat Hunger Amid Poverty

On a mission to satisfy local demand for rice, the Mitiri Cooperative of Young Rice Producers are fighting for the eradication of hunger in Bagre, a rural community located in the… Read more »

West Africa: Feeding The Future With Homegrown Cassava, Rice

The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) is celebrating a decade of its Feed the Future campaign, which enables partner organisations to target the root causes of… Read more »

Kenya: How This Kenya Fishing Co-Op Went From Treading Water to Riding Waves

When Etabo Lopeyo Lotonia was attacked by a crocodile while fishing in Lake Turkana, members of his social enterprise group put aside all the day's tasks to ensure he received… Read more »

Kenya: How a Group of Turkana Herders Became Vegetable Farmers

Natiira Ateni Self Help Group was formed in August 2014 in northwest Kenya, near the borders of South Sudan and Uganda. The community group was launched by former pastoralists who… Read more »

Kenya: The Borehole That Transformed Lives of Turkana's Desert Farmers

Launched in 2014, Natiira Ateni Self Help Group is located in Turkana County, more than 700 kilometres north of Nairobi, Kenya's capital. Natiira Ateni is a phrase in the… Read more »

Kenya: Natiira Ateni - Greening The Desert in Turkana County

Natiira Ateni Self Help group is located at Natira village, Turkana west sub county, Turkana county along Lodwar- Lokichogio highway which is about 150 kilometres away from Lodwar… Read more »