Zinc oxide puts zinc at the heart of food supply and human health
The versatile zinc compound supporting industry, agriculture and well-beingFrom the tyres on vehicles to ceramic tiles, protective coatings, sunscreens and agricultural products, zinc oxide...
Rainbow Crops, Vylor partner to accelerate development of novel gene-edited corn traits
Vylor, the advanced seed and genetics company that will spin off from Corteva on October 1, 2026, and Rainbow Crops, a Belgium-based spin off...
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®...