African clean energy trailblazers lead the way at Kigali energy conference
An impressive new wave of African climate innovators are revealed today at the Humanitarian Energy Conference (HEC) 2022, ahead of the opening of the...
A Surprising Reason For The Failure of Funded Projects
By Dr Nimrod Israely,
It was early May 2021, and I was in Senegal looking to establish a large-scale field demo of Dream Valley....
Tanzania seeks Malaysian investment in edible oil
The government of Tanzania is seeking investors from Malaysia to help bridge its dependency on imported edible oil.The minister for Investment, Industries and Trade,...
IFAD-continues to help preserve Amazonian forest in Brazil’s poorest state
The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of the State of Maranhão signed a financing agreement today for the implementation...
Swiss company sets up US$27m medicinal cannabis farm, processing plant in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commissioned a US$27 million Swiss Bioceuticals Limited Medicinal Cannabis Farm and Processing Plant in Mount Hampden, Mashonaland West Province.Speaking...
WACCI calls for strategic investments in seed systems
The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) has called for strategic investments in the seed systems of six staple crops in Ghana for...
With innovation and technology, Brazil is on path to achieving food security
While many countries around the world continue to grapple with food insecurity amid rising population and urbanization, Brazil, the largest country in both South America and Latin...
At COP 15, IFAD calls for immediate long-term investments in land restoration and climate...
With land degradation gaining ground and affecting up to 40% of lands on Earth, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today called for...
AFEX tops agriculture and commodities list in FT’S rankings of Africa’s fastest-growing companies
AFEX, Nigeria's leading commodities market player and the country's first private sector commodities exchange, is proud to announce it has secured first place in...
Safeguarding the food safety and product quality of baby leaf vegetables at an indoor...
Harvesting daily in a high-rise building in Singapore, Sustenir Agriculture has enhanced product quality and reduced food waste by using a TOMRA optical sorting...