Voices From the Margins - Small-Scale Fishers Demand Rights, Recognition At COP16
IPS
Small-scale fishers play a fundamental role in feeding people--they use sustainable methods of catching and processing fish products and are a significant force in the employment… Read more »
Uganda's Coffee Sector Faces Uncertain Future As UCDA Set to Be Dissolved
Nile Post
Uganda's coffee industry is facing a period of change as the government prepares to dissolve the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), sparking a heated debate in Parliament… Read more »
Closure of Zero-Grazing Cattle Project in Kampala
Nile Post
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has officially closed down a zero-grazing cattle project located on Plot 9, Elgon Terrace, in the affluent Upper Kololo… Read more »
Egypt's $14b Export Potential Fuels Agritech Growth Push
Daba Finance
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£86m of Support Catalysed For Earthshot Solutions as EarthShot Event Takes Place in Cape Town [press release]
The Earthshot Prize
Over £86M in value catalysed to date for Earthshot Prize solutions, up from £48M since launch of match-making platform Launchpad Read more »
Bobi Wine Challenges Museveni's Claims of Coffee Industry Revival
Nile Post
Robert Kyagulanyi, leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP), has criticised President Museveni for attempting to take credit for a purported revival of the coffee industry… Read more »
East African Coffee Exporters to Gain As Brazil's Output Drops
Business Day Africa
East African coffee producers are poised to reap even greater rewards as Brazil, the world's largest coffee supplier, faces a worsening drought that is set to further slash its… Read more »
Couple Scoops Top Farming Prize
Namibian
Farming couple Streicher and Hella Coetzee scooped the Livestock Producer of the Year 2024 award at a glittering gala dinner in Windhoek on Monday evening. Read more »
The Irony Is That UCDA's Crime Is Revamping Coffee
Observer
Mahmood Mamdani - as a side comment in Scholars in the Marketplace - tells us that when the IMF and World Bank pushed their debilitating privatisation drive across Africa - which… Read more »
Kenya Halts Avocado Exports to Curb Immature Harvesting
Business Day Africa
Kenya's Horticulture Directorate has temporarily halted the export of popular avocado varieties, including Fuerte, Hass, Pinkerton, and Jumbo, to prevent the harvesting of immature… Read more »
Kenya's Sugar Directorate Set for Autonomy After Senate Passes Bill
Business Day Africa
Kenya's Sugar Directorate is poised to gain autonomy after the Senate passed the Sugar Bill 2023, setting it on track to become the Kenya Sugar Board once again. Read more »
New Irrigation Projects Set to Boost Commercial Agriculture
Ethiopian Herald
- Irrigation projects currently under construction will play a critical role in advancing commercial agriculture, according to Irrigation and Lowland Minister Abraham Belay (PhD). Read more »
What $10m Agri-Biotech Programme Means for Rwanda [analysis]
New Times
Farmers and agriculture sector leaders have said they expect a new five-year scheme called Rwanda Agricultural Biotechnology Program, to support improvement in crop productivity,… Read more »
Trl Space Systems Builds Satellite for Agriculture, Environment Monitoring
New Times
Rwanda's first hyperspectral satellite is being built, according to the TRL Space CEO and founder, Petr Kapoun. Read more »
How African Women Are Protecting Communities From Devastating Droughts
allAfrica
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have released a new global report today -… Read more »
