A trailblazing sustainable agriculture project has helped hundreds of farmers move away from the harmful practice of growing tobacco, in favour of a healthier alternative, th Read more »
For thousands of years, the oil palm - indigenous to West Africa - has had an intimate relationship with people. An explosive expansion of oil palm groves throughout western and ... Read more »
Parliamentarians in Zimbabwe have fumed after it turned out that the Dubai Expo drained state coffers millions of dollars in foreign currency recently after parastatals' top Read more »
Fisheries serve as a source of employment for millions of people in the small scale sector on the coastline of Africa. Their fishing activities, in turn Read more »
All communal farmers will soon be required to venture into sunflower farming as it seeks to substitute U.S.$200 million worth of crude sunflower oil imports. The government h Read more »
Nomadic herders are among those suffering the most from recurring drought that kills the livestock on which they depend. To make them less dependent on rain, aid programs are Read more »
Growers and exporters dealing in the avocado export business face an indefinite ban on the export of Hass and Fuerta varieties. Kenya Agriculture and Food Authori Read more »
Traditional crops and organic farming stakeholders in Tanzania have asked the government to establish a department that would deal with traditional foods and seeds which are Read more »
A group of 45 farmers in Rusitu Valley in Chipinge, a district in Zimbabwean eastern province of Manicaland have from December 2021 started exporting nearly 50 tonnes of their ... Read more »
The implementation of Covid-19 protocols have adversely affected the businesses of women skilled in procducing shea butter, a fat extracted from the nut of the African shea t Read more »
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