Denmark commits to vulnerable farmers
In the wake of COP26, which featured a strong call for increased finance to help the world's poorest countries adapt to the impacts of...
World Bank grants US $100M to Madagascar to support combat famine
The World Bank has allocated Madagascar US $100 million to support efforts to combat a famine, as the south of the island nation suffers...
EU, FAO handover new Water and Land Information Management Centre to Somalia
The European Union (EU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) officially handed over the new Information Management Centre (IMC)...
Denmark commits millions to vulnerable farmers through IFAD’s climate adaptation fund
In the wake of COP26, which featured a strong call for increased finance to help the world’s poorest countries adapt to the impacts of...
What price do countries pay by failing to adopt genetically modified (GM) crops?
By Joseph Maina ,Nairobi Kenya (specialist in agricultural biotechnology) Two new papers aim to quantify the social welfare and economic costs that countries inflict upon...
Egypt allocates LE 100 million to conduct research on wheat productivity
Egypt allocated LE100 million to conduct innovative research to increase the productivity of wheat crops, produce new strains of the rice crop and increase...
Kenya to roll out Sh 9.6bn Livestock Commercialization Project
The government of Kenya in collaboration with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has set aside Sh9.6 billion to establish the Kenya Livestock Commercialization...
Innovative Agricultural Development Company Launches In Ghana To Offset $35 Billion Annual Cost Of...
With over 3,300 hectares of land in the Volta region, ‘Lotus Ecoculture’ is on a mission to
increase farming yields by up to 30%...
Smart fertiliser software expand globally by signing new clients as more companies look for...
Smart Fertilizer Software are expanding their global outreach by signing several new, high-profile clients. The fertilization and irrigation sensor-less software, which is part of...
Third quarter 2021 slump in agriculture GDP a surprise but not a concern
Statistic South Africa’s latest update on the country’s overall real GDP for 3Q2021 shows a decline of 1.5% quarter-on-quarter (q/q) seasonally adjusted (but not...