Ethiopia to harvest 2.6Mn hectares in a year using cluster farming
Ethiopia's Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) has announced that plans are underway to harvest 2.6 million hectares of land using cluster farming in the coming...
Congo, Rwanda sign agricultural land concession agreement
The Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed two memorandums of understanding and a concession agreement in the agricultural field.The agreements were part of...
ITFC Provides €35 Million in Financing to Support Energy and Food Security in Comoros
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) , approved two new financing facilities for EUR 35 million in favor of the Union of Comoros,...
Raw materials platform, Zaraye, raises $2.1m in Tiger Global’s first pre-seed investment in Pakistan
Karachi based business-to-business raw materials marketplace Zaraye raises $2.1mn in their pre-seed round from Tiger Global and Zayn Capital. Other investors include +92 Ventures,...
Kenya’s agriculture budget faulted
Kenya's civil society has faulted government for the low budgetary allocation for agriculture in the 2022/23 budget.Sh 46 billion was set aside for agriculture...
MoLAFWRD Zim to launch the MLAFWRD-AFC potato value chain financing facility
By Wallace MawireZimbabwe’s Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Dr John Basera will officially launch the Potato...
IFAD fights rural poverty by addressing climate change effects in Mexico’s Balsas Basin
UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of Mexico have signed a financial agreement today that will support the implementation of...
Nigeria to join West Africa’s ‘Cocoa OPEC’
Nigeria is set to join the Cocoa Opec in West Africa with a stronger price-setting capacity that can eventually benefit poor farmers.Oxford Economics, a...
IFAD provides economic opportunities to smallholder farmers’ and artisanal fishermen’s livelihoods in Haiti
The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of Haiti signed a financing agreement today for the implementation of the Inclusive...
Only legal revisions can resolve farmer-miner-disputes in Zimbabwe: Commission
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission in Zimbabwe says the rising disputes between miners and farmers are old and can be traced to the...