Ahead of the Geneva Conference of the Global Framework on Chemicals, African Regulators Discuss...
As governments and industry prepare for the first International Conference of the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC) in Geneva this November, regulators from South...
Biochar Industrial Group Lands $1.5M to Scale Waste-to-Value Carbon Removal for Agriculture
Biochar Industrial Group (BIG), a climate technology company engineering industrial-scale carbon removal solutions for Sub-Saharan Africa, has secured $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to...
Macadamia industry shifts focus from expansion to value per hectare
Du Roi Multiplant becomes only the fourth South African nursery licensed to propagate and distribute MCT1South Africa’s macadamia industry is entering a more demanding...
Behind Africa’s Agricultural Revolution: AbbeLabs and ISRIC Join Forces on Soil Intelligence
Accra, Ghana – Abbe Agricultural Transformation Partners Inc. (AbbeLabs), the African organisation founded to drive agricultural transformation across the continent, has signed a Memorandum...
Innovative machinery for Italian rice farming
As part of the RISO’ exhibition, currently taking place in Vercelli, a display of highly specialised machinery for rice field operations has been set...
Ethiopia targets sorghum as new engine of investment, trade and jobs
Ethiopia is seeking to transform sorghum from a largely traditional food crop into a commercially driven agricultural value chain capable of attracting investment, creating...
Oilseed farmers in Uganda double yields and income after shifting to commercial farming
Uganda’s oilseed farmers are increasingly moving from subsistence agriculture to commercial production, with rising yields, stronger market linkages and growing incomes emerging as key...
Bayer and Neste Partner to Scale Winter Canola Production for Biofuels
Bayer and Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, have finalized a commercial agreement to jointly scale Bayer’s newgold®...
Your maize can yield more — when protection goes beyond disease control
For maize producers, the value of a fungicide programme is often measured in terms of disease control. But what happens in the crop after...
El Niño heat puts small-scale farmers at risk as preparedness falls short
Small-scale farmers are heading into the 2026/27 summer season facing hotter conditions and unpredictable rainfall, but for many, preparing for the impacts of El...