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Kenya's GMO maize push sowing trouble for food sector, farmers warn

Agriculture

Kenya's GMO maize push sowing trouble for food sector, farmers warn

Duncan Miriri 15 Dec 2022

Ghana's rice farmers need finance for new technologies, but banks don't trust them

Agriculture

Ghana's rice farmers need finance for new technologies, but banks don't trust them

Philip Tetteh Quarshie and Evan Fraser 27 Sep 2021

Research and development are key to resilient food systems in Africa

Agriculture

Research and development are key to resilient food systems in Africa

Lulama Ndibongo Traub, Thomas Jayne and Wandile Sihlobo 2 Aug 2021

Ghana's farmers aren't all seeing the fruits of a Green Revolution

Agriculture

Ghana's farmers aren't all seeing the fruits of a Green Revolution

17 Jun 2021

Kenya dairy farmers double income, milk yields with climate-smart fodder grasses

Agriculture

Kenya dairy farmers double income, milk yields with climate-smart fodder grasses

10 Mar 2021

Green, integrated approaches could address food security challenges

Agriculture

Green, integrated approaches could address food security challenges

15 Oct 2020

Climate change a risk to agricultural production

Agriculture

Climate change a risk to agricultural production

Pertunia Setumo 14 Apr 2020

Why Ghana's smallholders aren't excited by the latest 'Green Revolution'

Agriculture

Why Ghana's smallholders aren't excited by the latest 'Green Revolution'

Siera Vercillo 14 Apr 2020

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Agriculture

New seed varieties help cocoa crops thrive in Cameroon

18 Mar 2020

Agroecology as innovation

Agriculture

Agroecology as innovation

Timothy A. Wise 11 Jul 2019

John Deere, Corteva sign MoU driving Africa's agriculture growth

Agriculture

John Deere, Corteva sign MoU driving Africa's agriculture growth

7 Jun 2019

Citizen science helps farmers adapt to climate change

Agriculture

Citizen science helps farmers adapt to climate change

Cecilia Rosen 12 Mar 2019

How droughts will affect South Africa's broader economy

Agriculture

How droughts will affect South Africa's broader economy

Mmatlou Kalaba 7 Mar 2019

Can South Africa's sorghum industry be revived?

Agriculture

Can South Africa's sorghum industry be revived?

Wandile Sihlobo 2 Jan 2019

Africa should be the breadbasket of the world says AfDB president

Agriculture

Africa should be the breadbasket of the world says AfDB president

10 Aug 2018

Agriculture

Scaling up game-changing agricultural innovations and technologies in Africa

Esther Ngumbi 29 Mar 2018

Agriculture

ACB dialogue puts spotlight on emerging issues for smallholders and seed diversity in SA

30 Jan 2018

Eyibeauty Oyelowo via

Agriculture

More people went hungry in Africa in 2017. But new initiatives also bore fruit

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi 3 Jan 2018

From left: Prof Eugene Cloete (vice-rector: research, innovation and postgraduate studies of Stellenbosch University), the Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, and Willem Botes (research leader of Stellenbosch University’s Plant Breeding Laboratory). Photo: Stefan Els

Agriculture

Wheat Breeding Platform launched to improve wheat production, yields

1 Nov 2017

Technology, like this tea-picking machine in Kenya, can harness agriculture’s power to change lives. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya

Agriculture

Science has the power to boost farming in Africa. But a lot has to change

Frans Swanepoel 19 Jun 2017

L-R: Deputy Governor, Osun State, Titilayo Laoye-Tomori; Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola; and Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Dr Nteranya Sanginga at the commissioning of IITA Research and Training Farm in Ago Owu

Agriculture

New research station to empower Nigerian farmers in modern agriculture

14 Jun 2017

Harmonised regional policies are farmers' lifeline

Agriculture

Harmonised regional policies are farmers' lifeline

19 Apr 2017

Improving cassava production in Nigeria through sustainable seed systems

Agriculture

Improving cassava production in Nigeria through sustainable seed systems

6 Apr 2017

Agriculture

How urbanisation can benefit farmers

28 Mar 2017

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Agriculture

Africa needs its own version of the vertical farm to feed growing cities

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi 27 Mar 2017

Marketing & Media

Drought-hit Zimbabwe farmers look to science to save crops

10 Nov 2016

SuSanA Secretariat via

Agriculture

Drought-hit Zimbabwe farmers look to science to save crops

10 Nov 2016

BASF East Africa team with Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries Hon. Willy Bett

Agriculture

New campaign helps farmers with the biggest job on earth

9 Nov 2016

Ag innovation is alive and kicking

Agriculture

Ag innovation is alive and kicking

2 Nov 2016

Right technology is not always within reach for African farmers

Agriculture

Right technology is not always within reach for African farmers

Kristen Reesor 26 Oct 2016

- Simnai and Phillip Tshuma, smallholder farmers from Hwange, Zimbabwe, show off their sorghum crop planted using fertilizers. Photo: Busani Bafana

Agriculture

Innovative use of fertilisers revives hope for Africa's Green Revolution

Busani Bafana 5 Sep 2016

The state of agriculture in Africa

Agriculture

The state of agriculture in Africa

27 Jun 2016

KKB via _Burkina Faso: cotton harvest in Dourtenga

Agriculture

Top African producer bans GM cotton

26 Apr 2016

Food security in West Africa can improve with policy support

Agriculture

Food security in West Africa can improve with policy support

19 Dec 2013

New partnership to reduce hunger, poverty in Africa

Agriculture

New partnership to reduce hunger, poverty in Africa

2 Jul 2013

Marketing & Media

What went wrong? Lessons from Malawi's food crisis

Masimba Tafirenyika 18 Dec 2012

Paddy Hartdegen

Agriculture

Peanuts may boost Zimbabwe's poor farmers

Paddy Hartdegen 19 Sep 2011