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Africa: It's Time for Women to Claim a Voice in Agriculture
allAfrica, 6 September 2019
It is said that women are the backbone of the family and the bedrock of a nation, but yet we hardly hear about their successes and triumphs. Read more »
Using Digital Innovation to Boost Africa's Smallholder Farmers
The 9th edition of the Alliance for a Green Revolution Forum will run from September 3rd to 6th in Accra, Ghana, under the theme - "Grow Digital: Leveraging Digital Transformation to Drive Sustainable Food Systems in Africa." allAfrica's Melody Chironda reports.
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Africa: Can Africa Feed Africa?
allAfrica, 3 September 2019
Did you ever think that they will be a time where farmers can monitor their crops or the movement of their animals without having to go to the farm. Read more »
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Africa: Uganda's Dr. Emma Naluyima and Senegal's Baba Dioum Share 2019 Africa Food Prize
allAfrica, 3 September 2019
Uganda's Dr. Emma Naluyima and Senegal's Baba Dioum have been honoured with the prestigious 2019 Africa Food Prize for their commendable effort in demonstrating and promoting… Read more »
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Africa: Using Digital Innovation to Boost Africa's Smallholder Farmers #AGRF2019
allAfrica, 3 September 2019
The African Green Revolution Forum is a platform for global and African leaders to develop actionable plans that will move African agriculture forward. Read more »
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Africa: Africa Bags €127 Million Along Agric Value Chain - Report
Ghanaian Times, 3 September 2019
Africa realised revenue of 127 million euros along the agriculture value chain last year, despite the availability of a market valued at 2.3 billion euro, the Digitisation of… Read more »
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Africa: Small Businesses Soaring, Driving Growth Across African Agriculture
AGRA, 3 September 2019
New report finds 64% of food consumed in Africa is handled by millions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), creating vast opportunities for family and women farmers Read more »
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Ghana: From the Field - Restoring Life to Ghana's Land
UN News, 2 September 2019
Subsistence farmers in Ghana are learning how to hold back the decline in the fertility of the smallholdings they cultivate while revitalizing their soils as desertification… Read more »
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In the Zimbabwean village of Mashaba, a solar grid provides cheap, clean power to run irrigation pumps that keep the community's wheat, maize and vegetable fields a sea of green. ... Read more »
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President Muhammadu Buhari says the directive to the Central Bank of Nigeria to stop providing foreign exchange for food importation aims to improve agricultural production and ... Read more »
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African agriculture has to carry that appeal that youth are looking for: A profitable, lucrative business that uses technology and leverages all their skills, as well as an ... Read more »
