Liberia: Govt Secures Huge Investment in Palm Oil Production

The Liberian government has announced that it is in the final stages of securing a U.S. $1.6 billion Indonesian investment in palm oil production which is expected to create… Read more »

Tanzania: President Kikwete - 'Agriculture is Everything'

As President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania was about to leave Dar es Salaam on November 15 to attend the World Food Summit in Rome, he sat down at State House to discuss a… Read more »

East Africa: Saving Lives, Securing Livelihoods

Mount Kenya rises majestically from the Kenyan landscape, dwarfing all around it, a magisterial monument. The mountain is a fertile giant, but this year it became a killing field… Read more »

South Africa: Land Reform Moves Slowly in Post-Apartheid Era

Land reform has always been a popular part of political rhetoric for a democratic South Africa, but agrarian transformation has not been realized in the post-apartheid era. The… Read more »

South Africa: Urban Subsistence Farmers Spread Wings

A project which began as an effort to empower citizens of Cape Town's poorest neighbourhoods to grow their own food has mushroomed into a scheme for selling vegetables for the… Read more »

Africa: Continent's Leaders Hold Talks With Obama at UN

African issues will be in the spotlight Tuesday when President Barack Obama hosts a luncheon for some two dozen African heads of state and government at the United Nations on the… Read more »

Nigeria: New Agriculture Projects Focus on Processing, Marketing

It smells of freshly ground peanuts inside the mud-walled room where Dr. A. A. Oredipe is standing. His eyes are focused, but moving—inspecting the machine that this small… Read more »

Liberia: Market Women Help Revive Economy

To the untutored eye of a visitor from elsewhere, the markets in Liberia and many other African countries seem chaotic, noisy, smelly, dirty and often dangerous. Traders and… Read more »

Liberia: Rebuilding Agriculture from Scratch

"Before the War" is a phrase woven into the very fabric of Liberian life, repeated countless times as a way to define how far the country has fallen and its… Read more »

Nigeria: Farmers Turn to Science to Boost Crop Yields

Late last June, farmers in Sabon Gari Ganu village in northern Nigeria's Katsina state divided their plots of land into 56 rows. Using seeds from 16 African countries, the farmers… Read more »

Liberia: Govt Calls for Tough Action on Crime

The Liberian government called Sunday for the use of "maximum force" against armed crime after two separate incidents in which a Belgian employee of the Liberian… Read more »

Senegal: President Wade Wants 'More Fair' Trade

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has proposed a "level field" for free trade with Africa that would eliminate "unfair" agricultural subsidies and encourage… Read more »

West Africa: Free Trade With U.S. Would Boost Cotton Farmers

Poor West African farmers' incomes could increase by about 5 percent if the United States eliminated its cotton subsidies, according to a new report released today by Oxfam… Read more »

Ghana: Cocoa Farmers Get a Sweeter Deal With U.S. Chocolate Launch

Divine Chocolate, a fair-trade enterprise partially owned by cocoa farmers in Ghana, launched a new company in the United States on a snowy Valentine’s Day. Read more »

Africa: WTO Head Sees Progress on Trade Issues, But Tough Bargaining Lies Ahead

The next six months will be crucial for the efforts of Africa and the rest of the developing world to secure easier access to markets for their products in the industrialized… Read more »

Ethiopia: New Film on the Plights of Ethiopian Coffee Growers is Creating a Buzz

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Africa: Building on AGOA for African Agricultural Trade Expansion

On the final day of the annual forum on the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) last month, the United States and Rwanda signed a bilateral agreement aimed at increasing trade… Read more »